ProfessorDave Frame

Dave Frame is Professor of Physics at the University of Canterbury.

Dave has a background in physics, philosophy, history, economics, and policy. Previous academic posts have included research positions at the University of Oxford's Departments of Physics and Geography, and as Deputy Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Centre, Director of the Deep South National Science Challenge, and Director of New Zealand's first major research programme into extreme weather events, climate change, and the associated costs. He has also worked at the New Zealand Treasury and at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK. As part of interdisciplinary teams, he has worked on seminal ideas in climate science, such as the physics behind the links between cumulative emissions of CO2 and temperatures, the differences between long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases, and the quantification of climate change-attributable costs associated with extreme weather events.
He was a Lead Author on the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.