Amala Mahadevan

• Year

  2024, 2025

• Program

  Ocean Biogeochemical Virtual Institute (OBVI)

• Institution

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• Location

  Falmouth, USA

Dr. Amala Mahadevan is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and teaches in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. After graduating in Civil Engineering from India, she joined the Environmental Fluid Mechanics laboratory at Stanford University where she earned her master’s and Ph.D. before moving to the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Associate. Her interests lie in exploring fluid dynamical processes that affect the oceanic carbon cycle. As an oceanographer, she develops and uses computational models along with measurements from research expeditions to study fluid instabilities, transport, mixing and bio-physical interactions. Amala serves as the Faculty Dean of Mather House, one of twelve undergraduate houses at Harvard University that is home to 450 upperclassmen. She is a recipient of the Harvard Radcliffe fellowship in 2015, MIT’s Frank E. Perkins award for excellence in graduate advising in the School of Science in 2019, and the Arnold Arons award at WHOI for excellence in teaching, advising, and mentoring in 2020.