Wim Thiery is a climate scientist focused on modelling extreme events in a changing climate. After obtaining MScs at KU Leuven in Philosophy (2008) and Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change (2011), he was an FWO PhD fellow investigating the interaction between climate and the African Great Lakes with a regional climate model (2011–2015). From 2015 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich, where he investigated the historical and future impacts of irrigation on climate extremes at the global scale. In 2017 (age 29), he was appointed as research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he established the BCLIMATE Group. With over 1000 media contributions since 2014, he is one of Belgium’s leading climate science communicators. During his research, he undertook research exchanges to Montréal, Berlin, and Zurich, and conducted field campaigns to Uganda, Rwanda, and DR Congo to install automatic weather stations on Lake Kivu and Lake Victoria. Thiery is contributing author of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (2019) and the Sixth Assessment Report (2021). His expertise includes climate change, climate extremes, regional and global climate modelling, global-scale climate impact modelling, impact attribution, land-atmosphere interactions, land management, storm early warnings, and energy meteorology. Recently, he founded the website https://myclimatefuture.info/ where the consequences of climate change for young generations worldwide can be interactively consulted. In his ongoing ERC Consolidator Grant, he and his bclimate group are deepening the research at the interface of physical climate change and intergenerational justice. In 2017, Forbes magazine elected him as a member of the “Forbes 30 under 30 Europe”, bringing together “the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers in Europe”. In 2023, he received one of the Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists from the European Geosciences Union. In 2024, he received the Scientific Award Climate Research, awarded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), and was selected as Laureate of the Academy – Class Natural Sciences, by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium