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)
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)
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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
Graduate Alumni

Jake Stanger
Masters Environmental Studies (MES)
Physics Undergraduate
Worked on detecting global ocean phytoplankton ecology from latest generation satellite ocean color products”

Priya Sharma
Current: Data Scientist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
PhD Alumna (2019)
Earth and Environmental Science

Danica Fine
Masters student
Penn Systems Engineering
Former Penn Undergraduate Student
In group:
Undergrad: Jan 2014 – May 2015
MA: Aug. 2017 – Sept. 201

Shirley Leung
Alumna
Currently: USGS Water Resources scientist
Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Earth Science (2013)
Master of Science in Applied Geosciences (2013)
PhD candidate in Oceanography at the University of Washington

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