Babatunde Abiodun

Affiliation: University of Cape Town 

Title: Professor of Climate Science 

Country: South Africa 

Babatunde Abiodun is a Professor of Climate Science, the South Africa National Research Chair in Ocean & Atmospheric Modelling and the Co-Director of the Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research at University of Cape Town. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (USA). His expertise is in climate model developments and applications. His research interest focuses on regional climate issues, including climate modelling, climate variability and change, land-atmosphere interaction, and solar radiation management. He has led a wide range of projects on weather and climate extremes, seasonal forecasting, climate change projections, impacts of geoengineering, and building climate resilience at regional and local scales. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and graduated more than 40 postgraduate students. His publications have received prestigious awards like the Stanley Jackson Award at South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS) Conference and the Best Research Presentation Award at World Climate Research Programme (WRCP) Open Science Conference. He is a lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report and a lead author in the Global Environment Outlook’s 6th Assessment Report. He has served on the editorial board of the Springer Nature Applied Sciences Journal, the Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography Journal, and the Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Journal. He is an Advisory Board Member of the American Geographical Union’s initiative on the Ethical Framework for Climate Intervention. He was Principal investigator on the impact Degrees Modelling Fund project which studied SRM’s impact on grassland productivity and livestock production and has published four papers on SRM.