Neil Hart is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Titular Associate Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on drivers of seasonal climates and extreme weather events and exploring the predictability, both potential and practical, of such events. Societal impacts of climate and weather shocks motivate his key research questions.

Neil works closely with colleagues across southern Africa and South America in both universities and national weather forecast centres, and sits on the African Monsoon Panel Working Group, a sub-panel of the World Climate Research Programme CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoon Panel. This research is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (First Rains), NERC, and projects funded by the Climate Science for Services Partnership -Brazil.

Neil completed his studies at the University of Cape Town, postdocs at University of Reading and University of Oxford, and a departmental lectureship in the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford.