Professional Affiliation

Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the UNSW Centre for Marine Science and Innovation, Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science

Expert Bio

Matthew England is Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the UNSW Centre for Marine Science and Innovation, Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, and the global Academic Lead of the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA). England’s research explores large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional and global climate, from the tropics to Antarctica, spanning time-scales of seasons to millennia. England’s research combines numerical model simulations with theory as well as observa­tions to explore the physics of important ocean and climate phenomena, publishing more than 250 journal papers. England completed a PhD at the University of Sydney in 1992 and held a Fulbright Scholarship at Princeton University in 1990.  He has previously worked at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France and at CSIRO’s Climate Change Research Program. He has been with the University of New South Wales since 1995, where he held an ARC Federation Fellowship from 2006-2010 and an ARC Laureate Fellowship during 2011-2016. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.