Current Members
Affiliated Faculty
Irina Marinov
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Researchers
Graduate Students
Anna Cabre
PhD
Formerly Marie Curie fellow, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
Main Developer of Digital Climate Atlas
Shunzi Lu
Undergraduate Students
Lillian Miller
Undergraduate Student (Class of 2025)
Chemistry and Earth & Environmental Science
In group since: January 2023
Working on subpolar and polar ocean ecology and carbon cycling using the CMIP6 climate models
Winston Chen
Undergraduate Student (Class of 2026)
Biology and Earth & Environmental Science
In group since: May 2023
Working on Argo float analysis for Southern Ocean dynamics
Diego Varela Lugardo
Undergraduate Student (Class of 2026)
Earth & Environmental Science
In group since: May 2023
Working on the Silica Cycle from a computational (modeling) and fieldwork perspective, focusing on the small-scale impacts of CSOs in urban regions and nutrient cycling in Polar Regions with the PennBiCyclesLab.
Postdoctoral Alumni
Sergey Molodtsov
Los Alamos National Lab for Climate Science
Former Post-Doctoral Researcher (Oct 2021 – May 2024)
Currently part of the Hilat Team
Ekaterina Kochetkova
Currently: Senior Climate Researcher, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philadelphia
Former Visiting Scientist (2019-2023).
Behzad Asadieh
Former Postdoctoral Researcher (2017-2019)
Raffaele Bernardello
Currently: Established researcher, Climate variability and Change
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Svetlana Milutinovic
Alumna: Postdoctoral Investigator (2012 – 2014) and Visiting Scholar (2015)
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (2021 – 2023)
Graduate Alumni
Jake Stanger
Associate at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in the Climate Intelligence Program
Masters Environmental Studies (MES)
Physics Undergraduate
Worked on detecting global ocean phytoplankton ecology from latest generation satellite ocean color products
Priya Sharma
PhD
Currently a data scientist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
PhD Alumna (2019)
Danica Fine
Masters student
Penn Systems Engineering
Former Penn Undergraduate Student
In group:
Undergrad: Jan 2014 – May 2015
MA: Aug. 2016 – Sept. 2018
Shirley Leung
PhD
Currently a product manager and physical scientist at the United States Geological Survey
Penn, BA/MS Alumna (2013)
University of Washington, PhD in Oceanography
Raghu Palle
Alumnus
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (2015)
In group: May 2013-May 2015
Karan Sharma
(Currently) Engineer with Schlumberger, Fracturing-WPS-WS
Alumnus
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (2014)
Hyang Yoon
Alumna (graduate student, 2014-2015) Earth and Environmental Science
Undergraduate Alumni
Jonathan Tran
Undergraduate Student
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
In group (June 2021-May 2024)
Chemical Engineering PhD Candidate in Princenton
Joseph Brau
Undergraduate Student
Physics
Lingbin Cai
Alumnus: Undergraduate Student
Computer Science and Engineering
Nathan Davis
Undergraduate Student
Environmental Studies and Political Science
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Ethan Lior
Undergraduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
In group since: June 2021
Ryan Dungee
Alumnus: Undergraduate Student
Physics
In group: (May 2013-May 2016)
Currently: PhD student in astrophysics at U Hawaii
Mo Green
Alumnus
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (2015)
In group: May 2013-May 2015
Grace Ringlein
Undergraduate Student
Physics
John San Soucie
Undergraduate Student (senior)
Physics
In group: Sep. 2016-Sep. 2018
David Shields
Alumnus: Undergraduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
Roman Shor
Alumnus (2010-2011)
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Currently: Associate Professor at Texas A&M
Collaborators
Eric Galbraith – Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University Anand Gnanadesikan – Professor and Department Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Tihomir Kostadinov – Associate Professor, CSU San Marcos Jaime Palter – Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Rhode Island Jorge Sarmiento – Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University Daniele Bianchi – Associate Professor, UCLA