Uluru

CV

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Professional Experience

Since 2025 Ice/Ocen Modeller at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Modelling melting of Greenland’s glaciers as part of the GIANT project with Dr. Paul Holland
2020-2022 Research Scientist (part time) at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
- Analysis of components of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Agulhas leakage, overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic) in high-resolution ocean-sea ice models with Eulerian and Lagrangian techniques with Prof. Arne Biastoch

2021-2025 PhD in Physical Oceanography and Climate Science
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Supervisors: Prof. Matthew England, Dr. Adele Morrison
- Thesis: Antarctic Bottom Water formation and dynamics in a changing climate
2017-2020 Master of Science in Climate Physics: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
2013-2016 Bachelor of Science in Physics of the Earth System: Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Geophysics
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Numerical modelling with eddy resolving ocean-sea ice models:
- running of MOM5 based ACCESS-OM2 at a horizontal resolution of 1/10°
- development of a regional Southern Ocean model using MOM6 at resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20°, 1/40°
- analysis of NEMO output
Big data analysis and visualisation using python (xarray, dask)
High Performance Computing
Lagrangian analysis (Parcels, Ariane)
Version control with github @schmidt-christina
Scientific writing (Latex)

2025 Top cited article: Schmidt et al. (2023) is among top 10 most-cited papers published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans in 2023
2025 Scholarship to support publication of remaining PhD thesis chapters awarded by the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (valued at AUD 6,000)
2024 Best Lightning Talk, Ocean Modelling and Observations Workshop
2024 Best Student Presentation at the biannual postgraduate reviews of the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales
2023 Climate Change Research Centre Prize for Science Communication, Outreach or Education, University of New South Wales
2023 Best Lightning Talk, Annual forum of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science
2020 University International Postgraduate Award for study towards a PhD, University of New South Wales
- valued at approximately AUD 330,000 covering tuition fees and a stipend

2023-2024 Chair of the Early Career Researcher Committee, Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science
2023-2024 Volunteer in the social media team responsible for the twitter (@ccrc_unsw) and bluesky (@ccrc.bsky.social) accounts of the Climate Change Research Centre
2023 Session Convenor and member of the organizing committee, Annual research forum of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Hobart, Australia, 8-9 November 2023
2018, 2019 Supervisor at the “Ice Climate Education” summer school
- summer school for last year High School students from several European countries
- 10 days on sailing vessel Ryvar in the German and Danish Baltic Sea
Reviewer for Communications Earth & Environment, Ocean Science, Frontiers in Marine Science

2025 Denman Marine Voyage on RSV Nuyina to the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf in East Antarctica (63 days)
- Resposibilities: Oxygen titration, salinometer, CTD sampling, outreach
2019 M159 on RV Meteor in the tropical Atlantic (28 days)
- Resposibilities: Mooring re-deployment, mooring data processing, oxygen titration, CTD watch
2016 MSM54 on RV Maria S. Merian in the subpolar North Atlantic (24 days)
- Resposibilities: Mooring re-deployment, CTD watch
2016 M124 on RV Meteor in the South Atlantic (18 days)
- Resposibilities: Underway CTD and XBT, CTD watch

2024 Graduate teaching assistant for “Physical Oceanography (MSCI3001)”
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia