Chris O'Brien

Dr Chris O’Brien is a Historian and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Northern Research Futures Collaborative Research Network (CRN), based at the Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) and The Northern Institute (TNI), Charles Darwin University (CDU); as well as ANU’s North Australia Research Unit (NARU). Chris is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Environmental History and the History Department at ANU. On July 13 2012 Chris was awarded a PhD in History from ANU for his thesis A Clockwork Climate: An Atmospheric History of Northern Australia. Prior to his PhD Chris gained a first class honours degree in History from the University of Sydney.