Dr. Ludlow is Associate Professor of Medieval Environmental History, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and co-founder of the Irish Environmental History Network (in 2009) and Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities (in 2017). He is currently Principal Investigator of the IRC Laureate Award-funded project “Climates of Conflict in Ancient Babylonia” (2018-2022) and Co-PI of the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project “Volcanism, Hydrology and Social Conflict: Lessons from Egypt & Mesopotamia” (2018-2022). He is Project Partner of the IRC COALESCE-funded project “Irish Droughts: Environmental and Cultural Memories of a Neglected Hazard” (2019-2021), and the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project “Effects of Large Volcanic Eruptions on Climate and Societies” (2019-2023). He serves on the “Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society” working group Steering Committee (2015-Present), and as a “Key Participant” (2018-Present) of the “Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies” working group (both PAGES-funded). He also serves (2019-Present) on the Editorial Advisory Board of a new monograph series on Pre-Modern environmental history, produced by Oxford University Press in association with the Princeton Climate Change and History Research Initiative.