Dr Yudha Setiawan Djamil is a climatologist at the Research Center for Climate and Atmosphere (PRIMA) under the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia. His doctorate degree is on the subject of Paleoclimate modelling from the Asian School of the Environment (ASE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to his doctorate studentship, he was involved in several studies on the topic of climate change such as an investigation of rainfall trends over Eastern Java. At the moment, he leads a team consisting of top Indonesian scientists from various institutions working on the topic of extreme rainfall over western Java.