Matt Osman
Climates of the past, present, and future.

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, where I run the Cambridge Computational Climatology and Paleoceanography lab (C3PO).
My work seeks to understand how and why Earth’s climate changes across seasonal- to millennial-timescales. I study the past to better understand our climatic future.
One major theme of my work has been developing new quantitative approaches to understand climate dynamics using naturally derived “proxies”. I aim for a holistic approach by combining proxies with modern observations, statistical models, and climate simulations.
Previously, I received my PhD in climate science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and worked as a researcher at the University of Arizona.
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Matt Osman
Assistant Professor of Climate Science
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
20 Downing Pl, Cambridge, UK CB2 1DB
mo549 (at) cam.ac.edu
news
Mar 04, 2025 | Congrats to Crystal Fu for her new Arctic sea ice proxy model, BaySIC, published today! Open source Python implementation, here. |
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Jan 28, 2025 | Check out our new work, here, led by Prof. Jess Tierney on reconstructing globally resolved Pliocene Warm Period (3-4 Ma) temperatures! |
Sep 15, 2024 | A hearty welcome to our new lab members, PhD students Crystal Fu and Claudia Offner, and MPhil student Emily Kraus! Read more about their work, here. |
Jun 01, 2024 | Cambridge undergrads: consider taking our new Part II course on Data Analytics in Climate and Environmental Science being led by Becky Dell and myself! |