Matt Osman

Climates of the past, present, and future.

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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.



contact

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

Nov 01, 2025 Headed to AGU2025? Check out work by several C3PO lab members who will be there presenting exciting new paleo-science results.
Oct 08, 2025 A hearty welcome to our new lab member, PhD student Olivia Reeves! Read more about Olivia’s work, here.
Aug 28, 2025 Congrats to Peisong Zheng for his new machine learning-based study on the Last Deglaciation, published today!
Mar 04, 2025 Congrats to Crystal Fu for her new Arctic sea ice proxy model, BaySIC, published today! Open source Python implementation, here and MATLAB implementation, here.
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!