Background
He was born in Bristol in 1964 and educated at Liverpool University (Bachelor of Science Honours and Doctor of Philosophy).
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Andrew Pitman
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Education
University of Liverpool.
Career
He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership (Higher Education) from Macquarie University. In 2002 became a Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, moving to University of New South Wales in 2007. He is currently the Director of the Australian Research Council"s Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
Pitman has recently been working on coupled carbon modules for climate models including dynamic vegetation, how vegetation responds to increasing carbon dioxide and how uncertain our projections of the future might be given instability in terrestrial carbon storage.
He has also explored the global and regional impacts of land cover change. He has interests in climate extremes and how these are likely to change in the future.
Pitman currently holds the following positions: Director of the Australian Research Council"s Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, hosted by the University of New South Wales (contributory to the setting up of the Climate Change Research Centre). Former Convenor of the Australian Research Council, Former Editor of the Journal of Climate Former Chair of the World Climate Research Program’s committee on Global Land Atmospheric System Study Pitman also served as a lead author of Working Group 1 of the IPCC 2005 and 2007 and is a Review Editor in the current assessment.
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Achievements
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He won the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society"s Priestly Medal for excellence in Atmospheric Science Research in 2004 and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographical Medal in 2009. He contributed to the Copenhagen Diagnosis which was shortlisted for a 2010 Eureka Prize and won the 2010 Future Justice Prize. He won the New South Wales" NSW Climate Scientist of the year in 2010.
Membership
Member of the National Academy of Science’s committee on Earth Systems Science
Member of the Advisory Board of the Risk Frontiers Natural Hazards Research Centre.
