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Biography

In 2009 Jan completed a PhD in Mathematics and Climate Science through the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania where he developed new ways of quantifying the ocean's role in climate.

From 2009-2011 Jan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Grenoble, France. In 2011-2012 Jan was a Research Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia.

In 2012 Jan took up a NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Southampton's National Oceanographic Centre. There he went on to become a senior research scientist managing a group of postdoctoral and graduate fellows furthering understanding of the global climate system and climate change.

Jan then became a NERC Independent Research Fellow based at both the Grantham Institute Climate Change and the Environment and the Department of Physics at Imperial College London.

In 2016 Jan took up a lectureship at the University of New South Wales' School of Mathematics and Statistics. He is now an Associate Professor and continues to pursue research into climate and other global problems.

Awards

2021 Promoted to Associate Professor by the University of New South Wales.
2020 Principle investigator on ARC Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science.
2020 Awarded Australian Academy of Science's Anton Hales Medal.
2019 Principle investigator on ARC Discovery Research Grant - Ocean heat content change and its impact on sea level.
2018 Promoted to Senior Lecturer by the University of New South Wales.
2017 European Geoscience Union Ocean Science Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.
2015 Awarded NERC Independent Research Fellowship to conduct research at Imperial College London within the Department of Physics and the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment.
2014 University of Southampton Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences Dean's Prize for Excellence in Research.
2013 Principle investigator on New Investigator Standard Grant - CLimate scale analysis of Air and Water Masses - funded by NERC to lead research into changes in the hydrological cycle.
2011 National Environment Research Council (NERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2011 Royal Society of Tasmania best PhD in 2010/2011.
2010 Ewe Radok Award by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for best PhD in 2009/2010.
2009 Hydro Tasmania Young Tasmanian of the Year Environment Award. (See Image to right)
2007 Fellowship to attend the 49th Summer School in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, WHOI, MASS.
2005 Dean's citation and 1st class honours.
2004 University of Tasmania Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics Honours Scholarship.
2003 University of Tasmania exchange scholarship.

Outreach

Since the beginning of his research career, Jan has actively participated in public education and outreach activities. Jan has taken part University and CSIRO sponsored science education programs and the University of the Third Age (U3A). He has helped to communicate physics, oceanography and climate science to a range of audiences, including early childhood, secondary and adult.

While in the UK Jan has used innovative ways to communicate his science to the broader public including his recent cruise blog (The Blob Chasers) which has had over 10,000 views and his narration of an animation about how ARGO floats work.

Jan presently co-founded an initiative called Mathematics for planet Earth aimed at stimulating research and public engagement at the interface of mathematics and the geosciences (mathforearth.com). Jan is also collaborating with a small catastrophe risk start-up called reask through their public interest blog (reask.earth).

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