Tapio Schneider

Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
California Institute of Technology

Senior Research Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 131-24
Pasadena, CA 91125

Office: 238 Linde (map)
Phone: +1 (626) 395-6143
tapio@caltech.edu

Biography

1995-2000: Princeton University
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program (M.Sc. 1997, Ph.D. 2001)
1994-1995: University of Washington, Seattle
Visiting Graduate Student (Physics)
1991-1994: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Studies of Mathematics and Physics (Vordiplom 1993)

2016-present: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist
2002-present: California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering
Theodore Y. Wu Professor (2018-present)
Frank J. Gilloon Professor (2010-2018)
Director, Linde Center for Global Environmental Science (2011-2012)
Executive Officer for Environmental Science and Engineering (2011-2012)
Professor (2009-2010)
Associate Professor (2008-2009)
Assistant Professor (2002-2008)
2013-2016: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences
Professor of Climate Dynamics
2000-2002: New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Associate Research Scientist

2019: Rosenstiel Award, University of Miami (in recognition of “outstanding contributions to atmospheric science and climate dynamics”)
2012: World Economic Forum Young Scientist, Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Tianjin, China
2010: Houghton Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008: Science and Technology in Society Forum, Kyoto, Japan (selected to participate as 1 of 10 scientists under 40 worldwide)
2008: Discover Magazine “Top 20 Scientists under 40”
2005-2010: David and Lucile Packard Fellow
2004-2006: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2004: James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, American Geophysical Union
1998-2000: NASA Earth System Science Fellow
1994-1998: Fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German National Scholarship Foundation)

Azimi, S., Jaruga, A., de Jong, E., Arabas, S., Schneider, T., 2023: Training warm-rain bulk microphysics schemes using super-droplet simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, submitted.
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Chammas, S., Wang, Q., Schneider, T., Ihme, M., Chen, Y., Anderson, J., 2023: Accelerating large-eddy simulations of clouds with tensor processing units. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth System, 15, e2023MS003619.
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Schneider, T., Behera, S., Boccaletti, G., Deser, C., Emanuel, K., Ferrari, R., Leung, L. R., Lin, N., Müller, T., Navarra, A., Ndiaye, O., Stuart, A., Tribbia, J., Yamagata, T., 2023: Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction. Nature Climate Change, 13, 887–889.
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Braghiere, R.K., Wang, Y., Gagné-Landmann, A., Brodrick, P.G., Bloom, A.A., Norton, A.J., Ma, S., Levine, P., Longo, M., Deck, K., Gentine, P., Worden, J.R., Frankenberg, C., Schneider, T., 2023: The importance of hyperspectral soil albedo information for improving Earth system model projections. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000910.
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Charbonneau, A., Deck, K., Schneider, T., 2023: A physics-constrained neural differential equation for data-driven seasonal snowpack forecasting. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, submitted.
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For a full list of Tapio Schneider's publications, please visit the Publications page