Team Members

Education

1995-2000

Princeton University
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program (M.Sc. 1997, Ph.D. 2001)

1994-1995

University of Washington, Seattle
Visiting Graduate Student (Physics)

1991-1994

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Studies of Mathematics and Physics (Vordiplom 1993)

Experience

2002-present

California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering
Theodore Y. Wu Professor (2018-present)
Frank J. Gilloon Professor (2010-2018)
Director, Linde Center for Global Environmental Science (2011-2012)
Executive Officer for Environmental Science and Engineering (2011-2012)
Professor (2009-2010)
Associate Professor (2008-2009)
Assistant Professor (2002-2008)

2022-present

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Editor

2016-2024

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist

2013-2016

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences
Professor of Climate Dynamics

2000-2002

New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Associate Research Scientist

Selected Honors and Awards

2022

Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union (“for sustained, fundamental contributions to the understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate”)

2019

Rosenstiel Award, University of Miami (in recognition of “outstanding contributions to atmospheric science and climate dynamics”)

2012

World Economic Forum Young Scientist, Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Tianjin, China

2010

Houghton Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2008

Science and Technology in Society Forum, Kyoto, Japan (selected to participate as 1 of 10 scientists under 40 worldwide)

2008

Discover Magazine “Top 20 Scientists under 40”

2005-2010

David and Lucile Packard Fellow

2004-2006

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

2004

James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, American Geophysical Union

1998-2000

NASA Earth System Science Fellow

1994-1998

Fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German National Scholarship Foundation)