Mika Peace

Dr Mika Peace, Fire Weather Researcher, Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Board member since 2026) Mika is a fire weather researcher in the High Impact Weather team at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. She joined the Bureau in 2002 as an operational meteorologist and has worked in all states and territories across Australia in a range of roles in forecasting operations, training and commercial services and research as well as embedded in fire agencies. She completed her PhD using coupled modelling to explore fire-atmosphere interactions at the University of Adelaide (2010-2014) through scholarships with the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and the Bureau. Mika’s research expertise focuses on bushfire case studies and running high resolution fire-atmosphere coupled simulations using ACCESS-Fire. She partners with fire agencies and land management groups to investigate and document fire and atmosphere interactions during major bushfires, to develop understanding of how the atmosphere in three dimensions drives fire behaviour. She was a 'Subject Matter Expert' after Black Summer preparing submissions for the Royal Commission and the State Inquiries. She has a publication record as lead author in international meteorological science journals. She regularly presents nationally and internationally at conferences and workshops, invited media interviews, STEM events in schools, Women in STEM and Women in Maths and science events in the community.