Nicolas Fauchereau

My name is Nicolas Fauchereau, I am a French national born and raised in Burgundy, France and currently living in Auckland, New Zealand, with my wife Sasha and my two kids: Malakhai, 5 years old, and Arix, 15 months.

I am now working (since February 2012) as a climate scientist at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric research (NIWA) in Auckland.

Before moving to New Zealand, I spent 6 years in Cape-Town, firstly as a post-doc at the Oceanography Department at the University of Cape-Town, and then as a senior researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Cape-Town, within the Ocean Systems and Climate Group.

During my post-doc at UCT, I worked towards a better understanding of the variability and predictability of atmospheric circulation, convection and rainfall in Southern Africa at intra-seasonal to interannual time-scales, and its impact on e.g. hydrological processes.

After joining the CSIR in 2009, I became interested into the relationships between Southern Hemisphere atmospheric variability, upper ocean dynamics and oceanic primary production and CO2 fluxes. I was lucky enough to work with an awesome team of biologists, biogeochemists, climate and ocean modelers and physicists ... truly multidisciplinary !