Babatunde Joseph Abiodun

Babatunde Abiodun is a Professor of Climate Science and Director of the Nasen-Tutu Center for Marine Environmental Research at the University of Cape Town, where he also holds the NRF SARChI Chair in Ocean & Atmospheric Modelling. He was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. His expertise includes climate model development, climate variability and change, land-ocean-atmosphere interactions, and climate intervention. Prof. Abiodun has led projects on weather extremes, seasonal forecasting, climate change projections, geoengineering impacts, and climate resilience. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers and was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report and the Global Environment Outlook’s 6th Assessment Report. He has served on editorial boards of scientific journals and is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). He is also an Advisory Board Member of the American Geographical Union’s Ethical Framework for Climate Intervention. Prof. Abiodun is the principal investigator for a Degrees-funded modelling team in South Africa and also volunteers his time as a research collaborator.