Todd Lane is the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX), and Professor in the areas of atmospheric sciences and meteorology at the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne. Professor Lane received a BSc (Hons) and PhD from Monash University with specialisations in applied mathematics and meteorology.

After completing his PhD he accepted a prestigious Advanced Study Program postdoctoral fellowship at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado USA. During his postdoctoral position, he studied a range of topics in mesoscale meteorology, including research into aircraft turbulence and atmospheric waves. On completion of his postdoc in 2002 he moved to a permanent research scientist position in the Research Applications Laboratory of NCAR where he was a member of the FAA-funded turbulence forecasting development team. During that time, he also worked on the investigation into the crash of NASA's Helios experimental aircraft.

Prof. Lane returned to Australia in 2005 to commence a faculty position at The University of Melbourne. In this position, he leads a research group in meteorology and cloud processes, as well as contributes to the undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in the Climate and Weather area. In 2010, he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to study convective cloud processes, in 2014 was promoted to the rank of Reader, and in 2020 the rank of Professor.

Prof Lane has held a number of leadership positions including President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (2014-2016) and Chair of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Mesoscale Processes (2012-2015). From 2011 to 2018 he was a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, where he led the tropical convection research program. He is now a Chief Investigator (and Deputy Director) of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, where he co-leads the weather-climate interactions program.

Prof. Lane’s current research focuses on a broad range of meteorological topics and their relevance for weather prediction and climate. These include: climate extremes, convective cloud processes (ie., storms), wildfire weather, rainfall, gravity waves, numerical modelling and weather prediction, tropical meteorology, and aircraft turbulence. He has particular interest in multi-scale interactions.
He recently co-edited the book “Aviation Turbulence: Processes, Detection, Prediction”, published by Springer in 2016.