Rate My Professor Andrea Taschetto

Associate Professor Andrea Taschetto is a leading climate scientist at the University of New South Wales' Climate Change Research Centre in the Faculty of Science. She earned her PhD and MSc in Physical Oceanography, as well as a BSc in Physics, from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research centers on the mechanisms through which oceans influence regional climate, encompassing climate variability, atmospheric teleconnection patterns, interactions across tropical ocean basins, and future climate projections. Taschetto particularly explores how large-scale sea surface temperature anomalies drive rainfall variability and droughts over Australia and other regions, with a focus on the diverse impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) types on atmospheric circulation, regional climate, and interactions with other ocean basins.

In her career at UNSW, Taschetto has taken on key roles such as CCRC Undergraduate Coordinator since 2021, CLEX Seminar Committee member since 2021, CLEX Equity and Diversity Committee member since 2022, and CCRC Postgraduate Review Committee member since 2015. She has been honored with the Australian Academy of Science Dorothy Hill Award for excellence in Earth sciences research, an ARC Future Fellowship in 2017, an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2010, a São Paulo Research Foundation Fellowship in 2010, and the IAPSO Award in 2005. Her impactful publications include 'Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Australia' in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (2026), 'Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Africa' (2025), 'ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections' (2020), 'El Nino Modoki Impacts on Australian Rainfall' in Journal of Climate (2009), and 'The Contribution of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies on Australian summer rainfall during El Nino events' (2011). Taschetto contributes to international science as a panel member of the CLIVAR Pacific Regional Panel and Tropical Basin Interactions panel, and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science, alongside guest editing special issues and reviewing for leading journals.