Professor Albert Klein Tank took up an Aegis Professorship in May 2022, as Aegis Professor of Climate Science in the School of Geographical Sciences.

Albert is currently the Scientific Director of the Delta Climate Center at Utrecht University and works on the the relationships between water management, food safety and energy security under changing and extreme weather and climate conditions. He has a special focus on sustainable transitions for river deltas, from the perspective of climate mitigation and adaptation. 

For six years rior to this role, Albert was Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services, a leading climate change research centre. Before this he was Head of Research and Development for Observations and Data Technology at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) where he worked for 25 years. Albert completed his PhD at Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 2004 on the topic of “Changing temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe’s climate of the 20th Century”.

Albert has expertise in climate datasets, current and historical climate trends, and climate change scenarios for adaptation support. He has coordinated a number of EU science projects and was a co-chair of the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices of WMO-CCL, WCRP-CLIVAR and JCOMM for more than a decade. He was a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report published in 2013, and a Lead Author in WGI of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report published in 2007.

Albert was awarded the International Journal of Climatology Award for 2005, by the UK Royal Meteorological Society.