Dr Pandora Hope is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology, specialising in Australian climate variability and change. She leads a project on climate variability and extremes under the Earth Systems and Climate Change hub of the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Programme. She is particularly interested in the attribution of the drivers of multi-week extremes, such as record warm spells. Prior to her involvement in the NESP ESCC hub, she was the lead author on the climate projections for south-west Western Australia and southern South Australia as part of the projections for NRM. She was also involved in the Victorian Climate Initiative (VicCI), and is now the lead scientist of a project with Victorian DELWP on the weather systems, rainfall regimes and rainfall baseline for Victoria.