Ariaan is a lecturer in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment. She is interested in understanding coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea ice interactions across the Southern Hemisphere, with a particular focus on Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate variability and change. Her recent work includes investigating drivers of the current low sea ice around Antarctica and examining the sensitivity of climate responses to different Antarctic meltwater projections.

Ariaan is a co-chair of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel, a member of the Southern Ocean freshwater release model experiments initiative task team, and was a co-author of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022. 

Ariaan previously held post-doctoral research positions in the ARC Specical Research Initiative Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, and in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Ariaan submitted her PhD in 2018, undertaken at UNSW and CSIRO, where she investigated drivers of recent Antarctic sea ice and surface temperature trends in both observations and climate models. Prior to this, Ariaan worked at CSIRO, and completed her MSc at McGill University, where her research focussed on understanding drivers of precipitation changes across the Southern Ocean and Australia, and heat waves across Australia. 

• Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate variability and change
• Atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions
• Coupled climate modelling