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)

Singer, C.E., Schneider, T., 2023: CO2-driven stratocumulus breakup in a bulk boundary layer model. Journal of Climate, in review.
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Singer, C.E., Schneider, T., 2023: Stratocumulus-cumulus transition explained by bulk boundary layer theory. Journal of Climate, in review.
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Dunbar, O.R.A., Howland, M.F., Schneider, T., Stuart, A.M., 2022: Ensemble-based experimental design for targeting data requisition to inform climate models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS002997.
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Bieli, M., Dunbar, O.R.A., de Jong, E.K., Jaruga, A., Schneider, T., Bischoff, T., 2022: An efficient Bayesian approach to learning droplet collision kernels: Proof of concept using “Cloudy”, a new n-moment bulk microphysics scheme. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS002994.
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Huang, D.Z., Schneider, T., Stuart, A.M., 2022: Iterated Kalman methodology for inverse problems. Journal of Computational Physics, 463, 111262.
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For a full list of Tapio Schneider's publications, please visit the Publications page