Dr Linden Ashcroft grew up in country Victoria on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people, and is a senior lecturer in climate science and science communication at The University of Melbourne. 

In her climate research, Linden uses pre-1900 documents and weather observations to explore the climate of Australia’s past, shedding light on climate variability and extreme weather events while improving data coverage for the Southern Hemisphere. She has previously worked as a climatologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, as a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Climate Change at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Catalonia, Spain, and as a program manager for the citizen science organisation Earthwatch.

Linden is a National Council member of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, an editor of the European peer-reviewed journal Climate of the Past, and regularly contributes to media discussions and community activities around climate change. Linden also co-hosts Lost in Science, a science show broadcast by community radio stations across Australia.

Linden  has been recognised by many awards for her dedication to communication and outreach, including being selected as a 2019–2020 Science and Technology Australia Superstar of STEM, receiving the 2020 Australian and Meteorological Society Science Outreach award, and being selected as a Victorian Tall Poppy by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science in 2021.

When she is not doing these things, you can find Linden walking with her dog, husband and daughters along the Merri Creek in Melbourne’s north.

Dr Linden Ashcroft is a Superstar of STEM.