Dr Joëlle Gergis is an internationally recognised expert in Australian and Southern Hemisphere climate variability and change based in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Her research focuses on providing a long-term historical context for assessing recently observed climate variability and extremes.

In 2013 Dr Gergis was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellowship, and her team won the 2014 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research – informally known as the ‘Oscars of Australian Science’.

In 2015 Joëlle was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, and was the recipient of the 2019 AMOS Science Outreach Award, a national science communication prize awarded by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS).

From 2018–2021 Joëlle served as a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report – a global, state-of-the art review of climate change science.

Joëlle is author of three books: Sunburnt Country: The future and history of climate change in Australia; Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope, and Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future. 

BSc (Honour Class 1), PhD (Climatology), Dip (Professional Writing and Editing)