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Sarah Kirkpatrick is a Professor in Climate Science at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU. She earned her PhD from UNSW Sydney in 2010, focusing her career on climate extremes projections and physical climate models. Sarah has a keen interest in climate extremes, particularly heatwaves, and is investigating future changes compared to historical records. Her research includes extreme event attribution, which involves determining the contribution of natural and anthropogenic factors to extreme events. Sarah's work emphasizes the changing health impacts of heatwaves, necessitating collaboration with human health experts. She serves as the Deputy Director of Communications and Outreach at the ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather and is a Chief Investigator for the Attribution Risk Program at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Previously, she has held several prestigious positions and awards, including the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and the Future Fellowship. Sarah is also recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for multiple years. Her research interests focus on understanding the impacts of heatwaves on human health and developing future projections of heatwave metrics. Sarah actively supervises research students and engages in significant public communication about science and climate change.
Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University • Canberra, Australia
Teaches and supervises research in Climate Science, focusing on climate extremes and their impacts.
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