Professor Andrew Mackintosh is Head of the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment. Prior to his appointment at Monash in 2019, he was the Director of the Antarctic Research Centre as well as Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences within the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He served as Director of the Antarctic Research Centre from 2017-2019, and Deputy Director and Associate Professor from 2013-2017. He was appointed at Victoria University of Wellington in 2002, and prior to this from 1999-2001 was a European Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK), a Bachelor of Science (Honours 1stClass) from the University of Newcastle (Australia), and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne.