Aditi Sheshadri

• Year

  2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

• Program

  Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)

• Institution

  Stanford University

• Location

  Palo Alto, USA

Dr. Aditi Sheshadri joined Stanford’s Earth System Science department as an assistant professor 2018. Prior to this, she was a a Junior Fellow of the Simons Foundation in New York, and a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, in the Program for Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, where she worked with R. Alan Plumb. Dr. Sheshadri is broadly interested in atmosphere and ocean dynamics, climate variability, and general circulation.

She is particularly interested in fundamental questions in atmospheric dynamics, which she addresses using a combination of theory, observations, and both idealized and comprehensive numerical experiments. Current areas of focus include the dynamics, variability, and change of the mid-latitude jets and storm tracks, the stratospheric polar vortex, and atmospheric gravity waves.