Dr Julie Arblaster is a senior research scientist in the climate change processes team of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, based at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. She grew up in country Victoria and received a Bachelor of Technology (Atmospheric Science) from Macquarie University and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Julie worked for many years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, where she became an integral member of the climate change prediction group. She returned to Australia in 2003 and telecommuted to the U.S. until 2011, when she formally joined the Bureau. She still maintains a strong collaboration with NCAR as a long-term visitor there. Julie’s research interests lie in using climate models to investigate mechanisms of recent and future climate change, with a focus on shifts in the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation, tropical variability and climate extremes. She is particularly interested in the interplay between the predicted recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole over coming decades and greenhouse gas increases in future climate projections. She is a member of the World Climate Research Programme Stratospheric-Tropospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) scientific steering group and a lead author on both the Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility chapter of the Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 2014 World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)/United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion