Lisa Alexander (earth scientist)

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Lisa V. Alexander
Education Queen's University Belfast
Alma mater Monash University
OccupationClimate scientist
Known forClimate research, heat waves and extreme weather
Scientific career
Institutions University of New South Wales
Thesis Extreme measures: mechanisms driving changes in climate extremes in Australia  (2009)
Website https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-lisa-alexander

Lisa Victoria Alexander is an Australian professor and climatologist, with a specific focus on heat waves. She received the Dorothy Hill Medal [1] for her research on climate extremes, the frequency and intensity of heat waves. Her research has provided evidence that the frequency and intensity of heat waves will be influenced by the quantity of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide. She was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, including the fifth assessment report.

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Education and career

Alexander was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1995 and Master of Science, in 1998 in the field of Applied Mathematics at Queens University in Northern Ireland.[ citation needed ] Alexander worked as a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in the Climate Variability Group from 1998 to 2006.[ citation needed ] The final year she was seconded to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

Alexander was awarded her PhD from Monash University, (2009), [2] where she won the Mollie Holman medal for her doctoral thesis. From 2009, she was employed at UNSW, within the Climate Change Research Centre. [3]

In 2013 she was awarded the Dorothy Hill Medal for her research on how future changes in the intensity and frequency of heat waves will strongly be influenced by the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions. [4] She has also collaborated with Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, another Australian scientist studying heat waves.[ citation needed ]

Alexander's has worked with the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) on topics including the assessment and production of international datasets of rainfall and temperature and climate extremes. She has also worked with the Expert Team on Climate Information for Decisionmaking (ET-CID).

Alexander led development of Climpact software, which is used to analyse and compute climate extremes. [5] The Climpact software is utilised by National Hydrological and Meteorological Services in addition to other climate researchers internationally. Alexander is a member of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program.

She is also a member of the GEWEX Scientific Steering Group, and on the executive committee of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS). [6]

Publications

As of 2022, Alexander had over 170 journal articles, on a range of topics including climate extremes, temperature and precipitation. [7] [8] She was an author of the IPCC assessments in both 2001 and 2007. She contributed to the 2012 Special Report on Extremes, and Alexander was also a Lead Author of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. Some of her select publications, including her most highly cited research, include the following:

Awards and honors

YearAward
2024Copernicus Medal
2023Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Geosciences [9] [10]
2022Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Geosciences [9]
2021Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Geosciences [9]
2020Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field [9]
2013Dorothy Hill Medal from Australian Academy of Science [11]
2009Mollie Holman medal for best doctoral thesis

Media

Alexander has published seven articles in The Conversation, [12] [13] as well as ScienceDaily. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "2013 awardees | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Alexander, Lisa Victoria (2009). "Extreme measures : mechanisms driving changes in climate extremes in Australia". Monash University Library. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Professor Lisa Alexander". research.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "2013 Academy awards for scientific excellence announced | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "UNSW climate data expert awarded prestigious Copernicus Medal". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Lisa Alexander | AIMES" . Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "Lisa V. Alexander's research works | UNSW Sydney, Kensington (UNSW) and other places". ResearchGate. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  8. ↑ "Loop | Lisa Alexander". loop.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Author Profile: Lisa V Alexander". Web of Science. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Highly Cited Researchers". Clarivate. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  11. ↑ "2013 awardees | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  12. ↑ Salinger, Jim; Alexander, Lisa (6 July 2020). "Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there's now more of both, for longer". The Conversation. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  13. ↑ "The Conversation". 5 September 2013.
  14. ↑ "As oceans warm, marine cold spells are disappearing: Cold spells can harm ecosystems, but they can also provide critical respite in warming oceans". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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