Christian Jakob
Professor Jakob was awarded his PhD in Meteorology
from the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
in 2001. As Research and Senior Research Scientist
for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts from 1993 to 2001, he worked on the
development and evaluation of parameterizations
for clouds, convection and precipitation. From 2002
to 2007 he was Senior and Principal Research Scientist
of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and
since 2007 has been a professor at Monash University.
He currently holds the Chair of Climate Modelling
at Monash’s School of Mathematical Sciences
and he is the current Deputy Director of the ARC
Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
Professor Jakob’s experience and current interests
are in the development and evaluation of the hydrological
cycle in global atmospheric models. Internationally,
he is engaged in many scientific and
collaborative activities. He is the current Co-chair of
the World Climate Research Programme’s Modeling
Advisory Council. He led the prestigious Working
Group on Numerical Experimentation from 2008 to
2012 and was the first university-based researcher
to be appointed in that position, in which he is
coordinating research within WCRP on the evaluation
and development of the representation of the
energy and water cycles in global models. He was
Chair of the World Climate Research Programme’s
(WCRP) Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
(GEWEX) Modelling and Prediction Panel from 2007
to 2010. As recognition of his prominent position
in the climate science field, Professor Jakob was a
lead author for the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report
(Working Group 1).
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