Rate My Professor Andrew Mackintosh

Professor Andrew Mackintosh is Head of the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment in the Faculty of Science at Monash University, a position he has held since 2019. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh awarded in 2000, a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1994, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 1993. Prior to joining Monash, he was Director of the Antarctic Research Centre in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington from 2017 to 2019, Deputy Director and Associate Professor there from 2013 to 2017, and had been appointed at Victoria University of Wellington since 2002. Earlier in his career, he served as a European Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Utrecht University from 1999 to 2001. He also holds adjunct professorships at the University of Tasmania and Victoria University of Wellington, and has been a Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University.

Andrew Mackintosh is internationally recognised for his research on the large-scale interactions between glaciers, ice sheets, and the climate system. His work focuses extensively on the Antarctic Ice Sheet and New Zealand glaciers, as well as the Greenland Ice Sheet and glaciers in Iceland and South America. This research has provided new insights into glacier responses to anthropogenic and natural climate variability and the physical mechanisms driving rapid and potentially irreversible changes in contemporary ice sheets. Key publications include 'Assessing the sensitivity of the Vanderford Glacier, East Antarctica, to basal melt and calving' (The Cryosphere, 2025), 'Glacier inventories reveal an acceleration of Heard Island glacier loss over recent decades' (The Cryosphere, 2025), 'Glacial and periglacial geomorphology of the Drang Drung, Haskira, and Pensilungpa glaciers, Trans-Himalayan Ladakh, India' (Journal of Maps, 2025), and 'Post-Little Ice Age Equilibrium-Line Altitude and Temperature Changes in the Greater Caucasus Based on Small Glaciers' (Remote Sensing, 2025). He has received the Fellowship of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in 2018 and New Zealand's Prime Minister's Science Prize in 2020. At Monash, he leads Theme 1 'Climate Processes and Change' within the ARC Special Research Initiative 'Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future'. Mackintosh has held significant roles including Secretary General of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences from 2011 to 2019, Vice President from 2019 to 2023, and Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. He has served on the editorial boards of Geology and Frontiers in Cryospheric Sciences and delivered numerous public lectures, media interviews, and briefings to policymakers.