Dr Solomon Gebrechorkos

Profile

Solomon Gebrechorkos is a climate scientist specialising in hydroclimate extremes and climate change attribution. He is currently a Researcher in Climate Change Attribution at the University of Oxford and a College Advisor at St Antony’s College. He actively contributes to academic service as an Editor and Editorial Board Member for Theoretical and Applied Climatology (TAAC), an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Climate, and a reviewer for major international grant schemes, including the European Research Council (ERC), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). 

Solomon has published extensively in high-impact journals, including Nature and Nature Climate Change. His current research focuses on assessing the impact of global warming on drought severity worldwide. His findings highlight the critical role of increasing atmospheric evaporative demand—or "atmospheric thirst"—as a major driver of extreme drought events. Notably, his work reveals that climate change is not only intensifying droughts in traditionally dry regions, but also expanding drought conditions into historically wet areas.

His work has received broad international attention and has been featured in leading media outlets, including Sky News, The New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, AFP, Libération, and SciDev.Net.

He completed his PhD at the United Nations University / Technical University of Dresden, Germany focusing on modelling hydroclimatic extremes and assessing climate change impacts in East Africa. Before joining the University of Oxford, he held a research fellowship at the University of Southampton.

Solomon applies a combination of climate and hydrological models across multiple spatial scales—from catchment to global—integrating observational, satellite, and reanalysis datasets. He has contributed to numerous international research initiatives, including Hydro-Jules, FutureDams, EvoFLOOD, and REACH, and has developed high-resolution, global-scale hydrological and climate datasets for both historical and future climate scenarios.