Dr. Nicole Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. She received her B.A. in Earth Science and Mathematics from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied past changes in sea level. Her research concerns deciphering the internal and external drivers of past sea-level change to better understand how these mechanisms will affect future changes. Dr. Nicole Khan has published in eminent peer reviewed journals, including Science, Nature Geoscience and Geology. She is project leader of the HOLSEA (Geographic variability of HOLocene SEA level) and on the steering committee of PALSEA (PALeo-constraints on SEA-level rise) international working groups and is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 639. She is also a contributing author to the upcoming IPCC AR6 report.