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Dr Max Brils

Research Fellow

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

I use numerical models to investigate how Earth's ice sheets respond to contemporary climate change. My previous work focussed on the interactions between Greenland and the atmosphere, while my current work looks into Antarctica's response to changes within the ocean.

Max Brils
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  • Influence of Melt Season Characteristics on Meltwater Partitioning and Delivery Into a Perennial Firn Aquifer, Jones, N., Culberg, R., Brils, M., Moure, A., Fu, X. 28 Jan 2026, In: Geophysical Research Letters
  • Runoff from Greenland's firn area - Why do MODIS, RCMs and a firn model disagree?, MacHguth, H., Tedstone, A., Kuipers Munneke, P., Brils, M., Noël, B., Clerx, N., Jullien, N., Fettweis, X., van den Broeke, M. 20 Jan 2026, In: Cryosphere
  • Assessing spatiotemporal variability in melt-refreeze patterns in firn over Greenland with CryoSat-2, Li, W., Lhermitte, S., Wouters, B., Slobbe, C., Brils, M., Fettweis, X. 1 Sep 2025, In: Cryosphere
  • Physics PhD June 25 2024
  • Applied Physics MSc
  • Chemical Engineering MSc
  • Chemical Engineering BSc

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