Tapio Schneider

Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering

Year

2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Program

Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
Institution

California Institute of Technology
Location

Pasadena, USA

Dr. Tapio Schneider is the Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Caltech and a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research focuses on how the climate of Earth and other planets comes about and may change, for example, by changes in atmospheric circulation or cloud cover. To improve climate predictions, he is currently leading the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA), which is developing a next-generation climate model that use AI tools to fuse observations with process models of the Earth system. He was named one of the “Top 20 Scientists under 40” by Discover Magazine, was a David and Lucile Packard Fellow and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, recipient of the Rosenstiel Award of University of Miami and the James R. Holton Award of the American Geophysical Union, and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.