Profile
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, etc.) in a changing climate. Neven’s research interests encompass coupled climate dynamics and prediction, polar processes, water cycle, and numerical, statistical and machine learning methods. His interdisciplinary research involves the interaction of the climate system and society along multiple human dimensions (e.g., public health, climate-related risk assessment, water management, 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.
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 with different levels of complexity at 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 his time at 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 and climate with biosphere.
Teaching & supervision
Neven teaches and supervises/co‐supervises students in the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), the Department of Earth Sciences, the Department of Physics, and the Department for Continuing Education. He was a stipendiary lecturer in Physical Geography at St Peter’s College, and a college advisor at St Antony’s College. Before coming to Oxford, Neven designed and taught a substantial number of courses, classes and labs at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, US), Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, US), Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona), and the University of Helsinki (Finland). He actively fosters inclusive and diverse research and educational environment as a member of the EDI committee at SoGE.
Publications
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Selected publications