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Sybren Drijfhout is a Professor in Climate Physics at the University of Southampton (Department of Ocean and Earth Science), where he works three days a week. Additionally, he works one day a week as a Professor by Special Appointment (Buys Ballot Chair) at Utrecht University (IMAU) and one day a week at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) as a Senior Researcher in the RDWK department (Research and Development of Weather and Climate Models).
His research focuses on climate dynamics, ocean-climate interactions, sea level rise, and extreme weather forecasting. Current projects include ODYSEA (ocean forcing atmospheric variability), SMURPHS (ocean's role in climate hiatus), Blue Action (North Atlantic-Arctic sea-ice links to European weather), and PRIMAVERA (high-resolution ocean modeling for climate variability). He also collaborates on Antarctic ice-ocean interactions and IPCC AR6 report as a lead author for the chapter on 'Ocean, Sea-level, and Cryosphere'.
At KNMI, he leads the 'Sea Level Rise' project, collaborating with Dewi Le Bars and Rein Haarsma on ocean eddies' impact on atmospheric variability. At Utrecht University, he works with the Ice and Climate Group, while at Southampton, he mentors Master's students and a postdoc (Jenny Mecking) on Antarctic ice sheet modeling using PISM and UK Met Office's HadGEM3 model for seasonal forecast improvements.
