Professor Nerilie Abram is a climate scientist at the Australian National University. Her research uses Antarctic ice, tropical corals and climate models to understand how Earth’s climate system behaved over the last millennium, at both regional and global scales. Her multidisciplinary approaches have brought critical perspectives to modern day human-induced climate change, including bushfire, drought, the onset of anthropogenic warming and the ways that climate change is altering natural climate variability. She is a Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science and the Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21^st Century, and was a coordinating lead author on the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. In 2024 she was elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.