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Biography

Dr Tilo Ziehn is the team leader of the Land Surface and Ocean Biogeochemistry team in the Modelling the Earth System group of CSIRO’s Environment Research Unit. He is leading the development of the Earth System Model (ESM) version of the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) and preparation of the next version of the model, ACCESS-ESM1.6, for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 7 (CMIP7).

Tilo has a background in earth system modelling particularly the carbon cycle, global sensitivity analysis and data assimilation. His research interests span a number of topics, including:

  • land carbon-cycle interactions and feedbacks,
  • the role of the terrestrial biosphere in mitigation and managing carbon,
  • climate stabilisation under net zero emissions,
  • climate overshoots and carbon cycle reversibility,
  • carbon dioxide removal.

He uses global Earth System Models such as ACCESS-ESM to answer relevant research questions and to set-up and design new experiments and frameworks to provide targeted information to support policy and decision making.

Tilo is a member of the ACCESS-NRI Scientific Advisory Committee and a co-chair of the ACCESS-NRI Earth System Modelling working group. Internationally, he is involved in a number of committees and working groups, including co-chair of the World Climate Research Programs (WCRPs) Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) and member of the CMIP7 Climate Forcings Task Team.

Tilo is the project leader of the Australian National Environmental Science Program 2 (NESP2) Climate Systems Hub Project 5.1 “ACCESS development and delivery to CMIP7” and has also been leading project 1.7 “Modelling the future”, project 2.11 “Towards the next generation Earth System Model” and was the deputy lead for project 2.9 “Transition to net zero”.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2009

    PhD (Development of global sensitivity analysis methods in environmental and safety engineering)
    School of Process, Environmental and Material Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  • 2005

    Dipl.-Ing. (Systems Engineering and Computer Science)
    Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

Professional Experiences

  • 2016-2021

    Senior Research Scientist
    CSIRO

  • 2012-2016

    Research Scientist
    CSIRO

  • 01/2009-01/2012

    Research Associate (Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation)
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  • 12/2008-12/2008

    Research Fellow (Flow and Dispersion in Urban Areas)
    School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  • 05/2005-09/2005

    Research Assistant (Optimised control strategies for glass conditioning)
    Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

Achievements and Awards

  • 2019-2023

    Julius Career Award
    CSIRO

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