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Prof Markku Rummukainen

Markku Rummukainen
NameMarkku Rummukainen
OrganisationLU, Nordic ESM Network
Job titleDeputy Director CEC
BioMarkku Rummukainen, born in 1966 in Turku, PhD in meteorology, and at present affiliated as professor in climatology at Lund University as well as Climate Advisor at Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) in Sweden. He studied at the University of Helsinki, where he earned a PhD in 1997. His doctoral thesis was about the global modeling of the middle atmosphere. Between 1991 and 1997, he carried out research on polar ozone at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Between 1997 and 2007, he worked at the Rossby Centre at the Swedish SMHI, with focus on advanced regional climate modelling. Since 2007, his work at SMHI has focused on the use and utility of climate research in the society, with expert duties. In 2011 he was appointed Professor of Climatology at Lund University where he now leads a strategic research area on Climate Models, and engages in science/policy/practice dialogues.