Biography
Professor Michael Reeder completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics at Monash University, before holding postdoctoral positions at the University of Munich (Germany) and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (USA). Michael’s research is focused principally on the dynamics of weather producing systems, and has published on a wide variety of topics, including fronts, tropopause folding, extra-tropical cyclones, Rossby waves, heat waves, tropical cyclones, gravity waves, solitary waves, convection, boundary layers, the Hadley and Walker circulations, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, and bushfires. Michael is a Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), the inaugural winner of the Zillman Medal (AMOS) and the Loewe Prize (Royal Meteorological Society, Australian Branch), and has given the AMOS Clarke Lecture. He is a past president of AMOS, past Chair of the Expert Group on Weather and Weather Prediction, has held memberships on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence (CoE) Advisory Selection Committee and the ARC College of Experts Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences Panel, and is a past Director of the Centre for Dynamical Meteorology and Oceanography. Michael has been the principal supervisor for more than 50 graduate students.
