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Dr. Matt Osman is an Assistant Professor of Climate Science at the University of Cambridge's Department of Geography, where he leads the Cambridge Computational Climatology and Paleoceanography (C3PO) lab. He holds an affiliated researcher position at the University of Arizona's Department of Geosciences. His career includes a postdoctoral role at the University of Arizona (2019–2022) and prior education from MIT/WHOI (Ph.D.) and Augustana College (B.A.).
Research Interests: Osman's work focuses on climate variability across timescales, combining proxy data (ice cores, marine sediments), climate models, and statistical methods. Key themes include: 1) Global temperature reconstructions of past warm periods (e.g., Mid-Pliocene), 2) Polar climate dynamics and sea ice changes, 3) Cryosphere-climate feedbacks. His methods emphasize paleoclimate data assimilation and proxy system development.
Awards: He has received prestigious fellowships including the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and the Ocean Outlook Fellowship. Notable grants include a US NSF-funded project on Greenland Ice Sheet-climate evolution during the Last Interglacial.
Students/Advising: Supervises PhD students Sizhe Chen, Claudia Offner, Peisong Zheng and others in topics like Arctic sea ice modeling and paleoclimate data assimilation. Collaborates with the British Antarctic Survey and chairs the NERC Doctoral Landscape Awards.
Labs/Teams: C3PO lab develops quantitative approaches to climate science, emphasizing interdisciplinary work. Current projects include Bayesian sea ice models and Pliocene temperature reconstructions.
