Professor Nerilie Abram is the Chief Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division.

Her research has used Antarctic ice cores to understand how Earth’s climate behaved naturally in the past, and how human-caused climate warming is now changing Antarctica and its impacts on Australia. She has completed 5 expeditions to Antarctica, including leading the ice drilling programs for Australia’s Denman Terrestrial Campaign in 2023/24.

Prior to commencing her role as Chief Scientist, she was based at the Australian National University and was a Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science and the Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21^st Century. She was a coordinating lead author for the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report into the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, and is also serving as a coordinating lead author for the IPCC 7th Assessment Report. In 2024 she was elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.