Prof. Fredolin Tangang is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, which he joined recently. Previously, he was a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, at the National University of Malaysia (UKM), where he also served as Head of the Department until his retirement in 2023.
Prof. Tangang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1997, where he developed a model for forecasting El Niño. He served at UKM for nearly 37 years. In 2011, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. In 2017, he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, to support the development of the university’s Center for Regional Climate Change and Renewable Energy (RU-CORE).
From 2008 to 2015, during the IPCC AR5 cycle, Prof. Tangang served as Vice-Chair of Working Group I of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In the IPCC AR6 cycle, he was a Review Editor for Chapter 10. From 2015 to 2024, he was a Scientific Team Member (SAT) of CORDEX, an international program for regional climate downscaling under the World Meteorological Organization, where he also led and coordinated CORDEX Southeast Asia from 2013 to 2022. From 2019 to 2021, he was a member of the scientific steering committee of MAIRS-Future Earth.
Prof. Tangang has completed over 30 research projects and published more than 140 scientific papers in international journals.
Projects
Climatic hazard assessment to enhance resilience against climate extremes for Southeast Asian megacities (CARE for SEA megacities)
SEACLID/CORDEX Southeast Asia Phase 2: High-resolution analysis of climate extreme over key areas in Southeast Asia
Facilitating the attendance, interaction and training of young and developing nation scientists from Asia Pacific at the International Conference on Regional Climate – CORDEX 2016 (ICRC-CORDEX 2016)
Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling Project (SEACLID)
Recent work
Performance ranking of multiple CORDEX-SEA sensitivity experiments: towards an optimum choice of physical schemes for RegCM over Southeast Asia
APN Invited Expert delivered a talk on international grants opportunities for climate change research
Future changes in mean and extreme precipitation over Peninsular Malaysia using CORDEX-SEA 5 km simulations
Process-based analysis of the impacts of sea surface temperature on climate in CORDEX-SEA simulations
