Ann Rowan

I am a geomorphologist investigating the dynamic evolution of glaciers in response to geological and anthropogenic climate change. My research combines numerical modelling with field data collection in the Himalaya, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and the European Alps.

Biography

I have a BSc in Environmental and Resource Geology (2007) and a PhD in Earth Science (2012) from the University of Manchester. After my PhD, I was a Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University, then a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield where I held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship. My children were born in 2016 and 2019 and I had career breaks around those years. In 2022, I was the Fondation Herbette visiting professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland. In 2025, I was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. I am Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. My ORCID is 0000-0002-3715-5554