Nandini Ramesh

Dr Nandini Ramesh is a Senior Research Scientist in Natural Hazards and Climate Risk at Data61, CSIRO. She received her PhD in Ocean and Climate Physics from Columbia University as a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, following which she was a Research Fellow and Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre for Data Analytics for Resources and the Environment at the University of Sydney.

Her research focuses on the physics of tropical climate on seasonal to decadal timescales, with a particular interest in the impacts of large-scale phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña events and monsoons on rainfall. She uses a range of techniques spanning dynamical systems theory, machine learning, computational fluid dynamical modelling and geospatial data analysis to answer questions about fundamental physical processes and the predictability of these phenomena.