Andrew John Pitman is a British-Australian atmospheric scientist. He was born in

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in 1964 and educated at

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(B.Sc. Hons and Ph.D.). He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership (Higher Education) from

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a Public university, public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third univer ...

. In 2002 Pitman became a Professor at

, Sydney, Australia, moving to

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in 2007. He is currently the Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Prior to this, Pitman was the Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (2011 - 2017). 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 was shortlisted for the 2017 and 2018 Eureka Prizes for Science leadership. He won the New South Wales' NSW Climate Scientist of the year in 2010. In January 2019 Pitman was made an Officer of the
Order of Australia
(AO) "for distinguished service to science as a leading researcher, particularly of climate systems and the environment". In December 2019 Pitman was awarded the Royal Society of Victoria's Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in May 2021.

Research interests

Pitman has a long history of working on land surface processes for climate models. He has worked on improving how hydrology, vegetation and land cover change is represented in climate models, and the global and regional impacts of land cover change. He has interests in

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extremes and how these are likely to change in the future.

Positions held

Pitman currently holds the following positions: * Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, hosted by the

* Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, hosted by the

(contributory to the setting up of the Climate Change Research Centre). * Former Convenor of the Australian Research Council Research Network for Earth System Science * Former Editor of the Journal of Climate * Former Chair of the

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’s committee on Global Land Atmospheric System Study * Member of the Australian Academy of Science’s committee on Earth Systems Science * Member of the Advisory Board of the Risk Frontiers Natural Hazards Research Centre. Pitman also served as a lead author of Working Group 1 of the IPCC 2005 and 2007 and was a Review Editor in the last assessment.

Selected publications

A full list is available at:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-7353-2011 or ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0604-3274

References

British climatologists Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors Academic staff of the University of New South Wales Living people Alumni of the University of Liverpool Scientists from Bristol Macquarie University alumni Academic staff of Macquarie University Officers of the Order of Australia Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science {{Climate-bio-stub