Jozef Syktus

Jozef Syktus is the Director of the University of Queensland and Department of Environment and Science (DES) collaborative research program on regional climate projection. He has over 30 years of experience of climate modelling and climate research. His has completed research with using global and regional climate model to investigate paleo-climate, land use change, drought, heatwaves, seasonal forecasting, and global and regional climate change projections. Jozef was a Science leader of projects contributing the CSIRO Mk3.6 climate model simulations to the CMIP5 archive, and dynamical downscaling of CMIP5 and CMIP6 models for Australia. At DES he was the Science Leader of the project delivering the regional climate projections for Queensland (https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/qld-future-climate/dashboard/ ).