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

Education

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)

Academic Employment

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

Selected Honors and Awards

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)

Publications

  • 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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  • de Jong, E., Bischoff, T., Nadim, A., Schneider, T., 2022: Spanning the gap from bulk to bin: a novel spectral microphysics method. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS003186.
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  • Souza, A.N., He, J., Bischoff, T., Waruszewski, M., Novak, L., Barra, V., Gibson, T., Sridhar, A., Kandala, S., Byrne, S., Wilcox, L.C., Kozdon, J., Giraldo, F.X., Knoth, O., Marshall, J., Ferrari, R., Schneider, T., 2022: The Flux-Differencing Discontinuous Galerkin Method Applied to an Idealized Fully Compressible Nonhydrostatic Dry Atmosphere. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, submitted.
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  • For a full list of Tapio Schneider's publications, please visit the Publications page

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