Martin Jucker

Dr Martin Jucker is a Senior Lecturer at the Climate Change Research Centre under the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales. He serves as Master's Program Director for the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre and holds associate roles at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science. His research bridges atmospheric dynamics, climate modeling, and stratosphere-troposphere coupling, with a focus on sudden stratospheric warmings, extratropical cyclones, and climate extremes. A ORCID-registered scientist, he has received awards like the Wiley Top Cited Article (2021-22) and WCRP Future Leader in Climate Science (2016).

As an educator, he convenes the undergraduate course 'Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science' (CLIM2001/PHYS2801) covering radiation, thermodynamics, and climate modeling. His PhD studentship at EPFL and postdoctoral work at Princeton, New York University, and University of Melbourne established expertise in wave-mean flow interaction and plasma physics. With over 20 journal articles in 2024-2025 alone, his work spans stratospheric water vapor impacts, zonal wave patterns, and convective biases in climate models. His software package aostools enables proper Eliassen-Palm flux vector visualization.

• Scientific Awards include:
  • Top Cited Article (Wiley, 2021-22)
  • WCRP Future Leader of Climate Science (2016)
  • Young Scientist Award Nomination (WMO, 2017)
  • Art of Science Winner (Princeton, 2013)
  • AIP Physics of Plasmas Editor's Choice (2012)

His supervision of Valentina Ortiz Guzman to PhD completion in 2024 marks a milestone in his mentorship career. Beyond academia, he contributes to public communication via climate visualizations and serves as a lifeguard at Coogee SLSC, while maintaining creative pursuits as saxophonist in bands like Upside Under and The Big Thong.