Joëlle Gergis

Joëlle Gergis is an Australian climate scientist and author specialising in Southern Hemisphere climate variability and change. Her research fields include climatology, weather extremes, paleoclimatology, and Australian history. In 2013, Gergis was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award fellowship, and her team won the 2014 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. She was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report in 2022. Joëlle is currently an honorary Associate Professor of Climate Science at the University of Melbourne.

Education Gergis completed a BSc in Advanced Science (Environmental Science) at the University of New South Wales in 2000. She has authored over 130 climate variability and change publications. Her work has been covered on Australian and international television. Gergis received her PhD in high-resolution palaeoclimatology from the University of New South Wales in 2006.

Scientific career In 2007 Gergis was one of three national finalists for the Eureka Prize for Young Leaders in Environmental Issues and Climate Change, and was one of nineteen Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists’ Science Leaders Scholarship recipients selected nationwide. including the meteorological conditions the First Fleet endured, as documented by William Bradley aboard the HMS Sirius, and examining claims about a mediaeval warm period.