Melissa Hart

Professor Melissa Hart has led and developed national, cross-institutional researcher development programs in two previous Centres of Excellence. Her leadership has been recognized via a UNSW Vice-Chancellors Award for higher degree research leadership and has been profiled in the Higher Education Supplement of The Australian newspaper. Internationally, she is the co-chair of the World Climate Research Programme training academy. Professor Hart’s research looks at the impact of cities on climate and climate on cities, as well as the meteorological controls on air pollution. A strong advocate for gender equity in science, she is a past chair of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society’s Equity and Diversity Committee and a proud participant of the 2018 Homeward Bound Women in STEMM leadership initiative.