Dr Andrew Gunn, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment

Andrew is an emerging international expert in arid landscapes, who was awarded the 2024 AGU Luna Leopold Early Career Award and the 2023 ISAR Early-Career Research Award. He has published 18 peer-reviewed papers in four years, including lead-author papers in Nature Communications, Geology, and Geophysical Research Letters. Andrew’s H-index is 11, growing at 2.1/year, above the 85th percentile for his field. He is CI on three ARC and two NCI grants totalling $1.46M, and he co-wrote two grants supporting his PhD/postdoc ($1.13M).