Chris Smith
Itinerant climate scientist

Building T2.51,
Pleinlaan 2,
1050 Brussels, Belgium
I am a senior scientist in the bclimate group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and a guest research scholar in the Energy, Climate and Environment Program at IIASA, Austria. Until very recently I was at the University of Leeds with a short spell at the UK Met Office.
I am the lead maintainer of the fair simple climate model and co-chair of the radiative forcing model intercomparison project for CMIP7.
I am involved in developing climate projections from socioeconomic scenarios and interested in improving integrated assessment models by incorporating process-based climate feedbacks to build more realistic and useful climate scenarios. See here for full list of my current projects.
Over the years I’ve become involved in a broad spectrum of climate research and enjoy continuing to collaborate in diverse topics. I’m always looking for new and exciting things to keep me busy. Please reach out if you are interested in working together.
news
Sep 09, 2025 | The flat10-MIP protocol paper led by Ben Sanderson is now published in Geoscientific Model Development, which provides a simple emissions-based set of experiments for evaluating carbon cycle sensitivities in Earth System Models. |
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Aug 01, 2025 | “The role of AerChemMIP in advancing climate and air quality research” led by Paul Griffiths, Laura Wilcox and Robert Allen is now published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and was selected as a highlight paper. |
Jun 19, 2025 | Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024 is now published in Earth System Science Data. This is the third annual update of IPCC-assessed physical climate metrics. VUB press release |