Available Positions
I may accept a new PhD student to start in Fall 2024 -- contact me if you are interested.
Research Group
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Ishir Dutta
5th-year graduate student advised by Colette Heald, worked with me on a second generals project about nuances of the Planck Feedback.BA Colgate University (2017).
idutta (at) mit.edu
Website
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Paul Nicknish
2nd-year graduate student, working with me on a project about using energy balance models to explore glacial inception. Also interested in fire weather and climate.BA UC Berkeley (2021).
nicknish (at) mit.edu
Website
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Olivia Norman
4th-year graduate student advised by Colette Heald, worked with me on a second generals project about atmospheric microplastics.BS University of Maryland Baltimore County (2020).
onorman (at) mit.edu
Website
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Martin Velez Pardo
5th-year graduate student, working on rainfall enhancement over tropical islands and dry hurricanes.BA Universidad de los Andes (2018).
martinvp (at) mit.edu
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Group Alumni
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Tristan Abbott
MIT PhD 2021, Interactions between Atmospheric Deep Convection and the Surrounding EnvironmentCurrently Postdoctoral researcher at NOAA GFDL.PhD MIT (2021).
tristan.abbott (at) noaa.gov
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Tom Beucler
MIT PhD 2019, Interaction between water vapor, radiation and convection in the tropics, co-advised with Kerry Emanuel. Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne.PhD MIT (2019)
tom.beucler (at) unil.ch
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Leah Birch
Harvard PhD, was co-advised by Eli Tziperman and me from 2014-2017, worked on glacial inception over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Currently Atmospheric Data Scientist at Morse Corp.PhD Harvard (2017).
birch.leah (at) gmail.com
Website
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Lyssa Freese
MIT PhD 2023, Energy Policy Impacts on Air Quality, Climate Change, and Equity at the National and Global Scale. Advised by Noelle Selin, worked with me on a second generals project about Antarctic radiative forcing and climate.PhD MIT (2023).
emfreese (at) mit.edu
Website
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Daniel Koll
Former postdoctoral associate from 2017-2021, worked on coupling between clouds, convection, and atmospheric dynamics on tidally-locked rocky expolanets, and on fundamentals of radiative transfer and the runaway greenhouse. Currently assistant professor at Peking University.PhD University of Chicago (2016).
dkoll (at) pku.edu.cn
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Nicholas Lutsko
Former postdoctoral associate from 2017-2019, worked on changes in precipitation efficieny in a warmer world and role of mountains on temperature variability. Currently assistant professor at Scripps.PhD Princeton University (2016).
nlutsko (at) ucsd.edu
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Raphael Rousseau-Rizzi
PhD student advised by Kerry Emanuel, worked with me on a second generals project about overshooting convection near the tropopause in range of dry to moist atmospheres.PhD MIT (2021).
rrizzi (at) mit.edu
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Catherine Wilka
PhD student advised by Susan Solomon, working on ozone changes in the tropical lower stratosphere. Worked with me on a second generals project with me about Lagrangian view of cold air formation.PhD MIT (2021).
cwilka (at) mit.edu
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