Prof Todd Lane

Biography

Professor Todd Lane was awarded his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Monash University in 2000, having completed his bachelor’s degree in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA) from 2000 to 2002 and a staff scientist there from 2003 to 2005. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2005, where he is now a professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science. Between 2010 and 2014 he was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Prof Lane’s primary research focus is on atmospheric processes. He is internationally recognised as an expert on tropical thunderstorms, atmospheric waves and turbulence. He has made important contributions to many aspects of mesoscale meteorology, convective cloud dynamics and high-resolution atmospheric modelling. Prof Lane's research at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes is within the Weather and Climate Interactions research program, where he conducts research on extreme rainfall and fronts. He uses high-resolution regional atmospheric models to determine the mesoscale processes controlling extremes to help better understand and predict them. Prof Lane has held numerous leadership positions, including president of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) (2014-2015), chair of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee on Mesoscale Processes (2012-2015) and editor of Monthly Weather Review (2016-2018). He has received awards from AMS, the Australian Academy of Science and NASA and is a fellow of AMOS.