Professor Andy Pitman is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Professor Pitman’s research focus is on terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling, model evaluation and earth systems approaches to understanding climate change.
Professor Pitman is closely affiliated with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). He was a lead author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports 3 and 4, contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC in 2007. He was review editor of the 2013 IPCC report. He has also contributed to the Copenhagen Diagnosis, an Australia-led update of the science of climate change. He is a fellow of AMOS and of the American Meteorological Society.
Professor Pitman was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2019.
