I am an Assistant Professor in the Oceanography
Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at
Mānoa (UH). I am also affiliated with the International Pacific
Research Center (IPRC). Both are part of the School of Ocean and
Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at UH.
My Climate Dynamics research group is
working on various aspects of climate variability and change
in the past, present, and future. These range from regional
to global scales, from the tropics to the poles. Among other
things, we are trying to understand how the future climate
in the North Pacific will be shaped by both local processes
and by remote influences from the deep tropics.
Our tools include statistical analysis of observations
and paleo records as well as hierarchies of climate model
simulations, ranging from very idealized low-order systems
to state-of-the-art high-resolution coupled climate models
and large ensemble projects. High resolution models allow us
to gain a better understanding of regional processes while
large ensembles provide a powerful tool to study changes in
extreme events (such as marine heatwaves or heavy rainfall)
Furthermore, we are interested in the practical
applications to seasonal forecasting and society as a whole
based on insights gained from studying fundamental climate
dynamics. For instance, we recently developed a new
statistical-dynamical forecast system for the Indian Ocean
Dipole (IOD). This system exhibits superior skill compared
to all previous and current operational IOD prediction
systems.
Please contact me regarding potential
opportunities to join the group as a student/postdoc.
Short
Biography (see full CV
for details)
Academic Appointments (post PhD)
- 2020--Present: Assistant
Professor (Oceanography Department
and International Pacific Research Center (IPRC),
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA)
- 2018--2019: Assistant Project Leader and
Research Professor (IBS Center for
Climate Physics (ICCP), Pusan National University,
Busan, South Korea)
- 2016--2018: NOAA Climate & Global Change
Postdoctoral Fellow (Atmospheric
Sciences Department, University of Washington,
Seattle, USA)
- 2015--2017: NOAA Affiliate
(Visitor/Collaborator at Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, USA)
- 2015--2016: Postdoctoral Fellow (Atmospheric
Sciences Department, University of Hawaiʻi at
Mānoa, Honolulu, USA)
Education
- 2015: PhD in Meteorology,
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (USA)
- 2009: German Diplom (combined B.S/M.S
degree) in Marine Environmental Sciences,
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (Germany)
Major Awards
- 2020: Kamide
Lecture Award, Atmospheric Sciences
section, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
- 2018: STS forum (Science and Technology in
Society forum) Future Leaders Program Fellow,
Kyoto, Japan
- 2016: Outstanding Young Scientist Award,
Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) division,
European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- 2016: NOAA Climate &
Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
(alumni class 26), USA
Other
- IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) WG1
contributing author
- Member: CLIVAR research focus group "Tropical
basin interaction"
- Lived and worked in Hawaiʻi,
the mainland USA, South Korea, Germany, New
Zealand/Aotearoa, Indonesia, and
Australia.
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