Dr Mandy Freund

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Senior Research Fellow

ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather

Lecturer in Climate Science

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Expertise

Climate variability, climate change, El Niño and La Niña, ENSO, drought, rainfall extremes, floods, heat extremes, seasonal climate outlooks, climate drivers, tropical climate, Southern Hemisphere climate, ocean–atmosphere interactions, climate patterns, climate impacts, long-term climate trends, past climate (paleoclimate), climate models, climate prediction and forecasting

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Previous media experience

Had a few newspaper article interviews, radio interviews and live interview on abc

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Biography

I am a Lecturer in Climate Science whose research examines seasonal-to-decadal climate variability and its influence on droughts and rainfall extremes. Before joining The University of Melbourne, I was working at CSIRO.

Personal info

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Gender:

Female

Pronouns:

she/her

Languages besides English:

German

ResearcherID/ORCID iD:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8839-5494

Last updated: 27 Jan 2026