Katrina Hui

Katrina Hui is a Science Associate at Schmidt Sciences, where she works with the Climate Center to develop interdisciplinary programs in climate science and Earth system modeling. Her work focuses on advancing model realism by connecting fundamental climate processes with real-world risks and impacts.

Katrina is a climate scientist with expertise in atmospheric dynamics and Earth system science. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research investigated the physical mechanisms driving climate variability and the coupling between atmospheric circulation and precipitation, utilizing a hierarchy of global climate models to explore tropical dynamics.

Prior to joining Schmidt Sciences, Katrina served as an Associate Program Officer on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role, she led multidisciplinary initiatives spanning extreme event attribution, macroeconomic climate risk, and the applications of AI in Earth system science. By convening experts across academia, government, and industry, she worked to define research priorities and translate complex scientific questions into actionable programmatic directions.

Katrina holds a B.S. in Physics and in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering with a focus on Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics from the California Institute of Technology. She also conducted postdoctoral research with the Tropical Dynamics group at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She is a recipient of the NASA Aeronautics Undergraduate Scholarship and the American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship.