Dr Nandini Ramesh

https://people.csiro.au/r/n/nandini-ramesh

Biography

Dr. Nandini Ramesh is a Senior Research Scientist in Natural Hazards and Climate Risk at Data61, CSIRO. She received her PhD in Ocean and Climate Physics from Columbia University as a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, following which she was a Research Fellow and Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre for Data Analytics for Resources and the Environment at the University of Sydney.

Her research focuses on the physics of tropical climate on seasonal to decadal timescales, with a particular interest in the impacts of large-scale phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña events and monsoons on rainfall. She uses a range of techniques spanning dynamical systems theory, machine learning, computational fluid dynamical modelling and geospatial data analysis to answer questions about fundamental physical processes and the predictability of these phenomena.

Academic Qualifications

2018

PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
2015

M Phil in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
2011

Master of Science in Earth Physics
Australian National University
2010

Bachelor of Science in Physics
Stella Maris College, University of Madras

Achievements and Awards

2023-2024

Best Science Communication
Analytics and Decision Sciences, Data61
2022-2023

Outstanding Reviewer Citation
American Geophysical Union (Geophysical Research Letters)
2014-2017

NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2012-2018

Dean's Fellowship
Columbia University
2007-2010

Gold Medal for Physics
University of Madras, Stella Maris College

Other highlights

2023-2023

Interviews with ABC on radio, television, and web media; interview with Nature News regarding the transition from La Nina to El Nino: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02122-6
2021-2021

Paper of Note, selected by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, for the discovery of a new climate type: https://drive.google.com/file/d/165qhXTUfBkZVQcx6YH9FVBKP0pntvA5l/view?usp=sharing
2017-2025

Invited seminars at: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA; Stanford University, USA; Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (LOCEAN), France; University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Delaware, USA; Monash University, Australia; Columbia University, USA; Indian Institute of Science, India; Centre for Climate Research, Singapore; University of Sydney, Australia; Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.
2019-2019

Interviews with BBC Radio 4, Science News, and an article in The Conversation on our paper in Science about ocean currents and fisheries: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym1v (beginning at 8:44), https://www.sciencenews.org/article/baby-fish-connect-world-fisheries-computer-simulation, https://theconversation.com/fish-larvae-float-across-national-borders-binding-the-worlds-oceans-in-a-single-network-120149
2019-2019

Invited Speaker, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, ENSO: Dynamics, Predictability and Modelling

Professional Experiences

2018-2021

Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Berkeley
2021-2022

Research Fellow and Chief Investigator
ARC Centre for Data Analytics for Resources and the Environment, The University of Sydney

Community and Corporate Citizenship

2020-2025

Reviewer for Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Nature Partner Journals: Climate and Atmospheric Science, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters
2022-2022

Steering Committee, Data61 Analytics & Decision Sciences Symposium 2022