Dann Mitchell

Dann Mitchell is a Alan Turing fellow, a NERC fellow, and Professor of Climate Science at the University of Bristol. He is the Met Office co-chair in climate hazards, co-lead of the Cabot Institute for the Environment ‘Environmental Change’ theme, and the head of the Climate Dynamics group. He moved to Bristol in 2017 after a five-year research post in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Since completing his PhD in 2011 in the world-famous meteorology department of the University of Reading, Mitchell has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, with a strong focus on climate extremes, hazards, and impacts; especially related to health.

He is co-founder and coordinator of the Half a Degree additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts (HAPPI) consortium, which is aimed at understanding climate variability under the Paris Agreement climate goals.