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Agatha completed her PhD in Physical Oceanography at Florida state University (USA) in 2003. Before joining the Department of Geological Sciences as Associate Professor in 2011, she held research fellowships at Princeton University (USA) and the University of East Anglia (UK). Agatha's research is focused around the dynamics of the large scale ocean circulation and its interaction with climate, now and in the past. Topics of specific focus include the driving forces and state of the deep ocean circulation (also known as the ocean's meridional overturning circulation), the Arctic Ocean and sea ice, and the Southern Ocean circulation. Agatha studies these current systems, their dependence on the continental configurations, and their interaction with the overlying winds and greenhouse gases throughout the last 250 million years and into the future. She addresses these problems using theory and models of various complexity and through collaboration with observationalists and paleoceanographers. Agatha has served as Vice-President of the International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Ocean since 2019.

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