Neven Fučkar

Dr Neven S. Fučkar is a climate and data scientist working on dynamics, modelling, attribution and impacts of extreme events (e.g., heatwaves, droughts, floods, sea-ice retreat, etc.) in a changing climate. Neven’s research interests encompass coupled climate dynamics and high-resolution prediction, polar processes, water cycle, and numerical, statistical and machine learning methods. His interdisciplinary research involves the interaction of the climate system and extreme events with society along multiple human dimensions (e.g., public health, early childhood development, multisectoral climate-related risk, water management, energy transition, economy, etc.) to advance resilience, adaptation and sustainability. Neven frequently engages with national and international stakeholders from the UK Health Security Agency to the World Bank, and he has extensive experience with outreach (e.g., Oxford University Museum of Natural History, COP26 University Network podcasts, ClimArts, etc.). 

Neven has a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US, where he investigated ocean and climate dynamics with a hierarchy of models at different levels of complexity at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) – the birthplace of the first coupled climate general circulation model. Just before coming to Princeton, he worked at the NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research. Neven held seven named fellowships, including Marie Skłodowska‐Curie Individual Fellowship at Oxford. Just before joining Oxford, he was a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow in the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and he worked on climate variability and change, sea ice, palaeoclimate, sub-seasonal to decadal predictions, downscaling and bias correction, and the interaction of weather & climate with biosphere.