Christian Jakob

Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University. I am a professor in Atmospheric Science at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. My research focuses on computer models of Earth' atmosphere as they are used to make weather forecast, predictions of the next season as well as simulations of our current and future climate. I am the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, which investigates how Australia’s weather is going to change as our planet warms. In particular I am working on the representation of clouds and thunderstorms in such models. These play a major role in the way energy and water are cycled through the atmosphere and hence are crucial ingredients of the climate system.