Reindert Julius Haarsma

PhD in meteorology at the University of Utrecht in 1989. Presently senior scientist at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI). He has a wide experience in research on climate variability and climate change with a special focus on atmospheric dynamics and ocean-land-atmosphere interactions. Specific reserach topics he has worked on include: Dynamics of planetary Rossby waves, hurricanes, thermohaline circulation and deep water formation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, Southern Ocean variability, tropical and south Atlantic variability, Sahel rainfall, solar variability and paleo reserach. He has a large experinence in numerical modeling: He has taken the initiative and was the main contributor to the development of the intermediate complexity climate model EcBilt, took part in the development of the Speedy-Micom model and is presently active in the EC-EARTH project, which aims at the development of an earth-system model. He was visitng professor at the University of Sao Paulo from august 2002 to august 2003 and for 3 months in 2005. He was member of the advisory board of the German DEKLIM program. He has been the advisor of several master and PhD students. He is author and co-author of 56 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and a H factor of 19.

bachelor's at Physics from University Utrecht (1976), master's at Physics from University of Utrecht (1980) and doctorate at meteorology from Free Universty of Amsterdam (1989). Has experience in Geosciences, focusing on Geosciences, acting on the following subjects: ocean-atmosphere interaction, climate, variability, ocean dynamics and atmospheric dynamcis.