Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the School of Science at University of New South Wales, Canberra. Sarah is currently a chief investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

She previously held an ARC DECRA fellowship, and was based at the Climate Change Research Centre at University of New South Wales, Sydney from 2011 to 2021.