Presenter

Dr. Stenchikov completed his PhD in the numerical and analytical study of weak plasma turbulence at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1977. Afterward, he headed a department at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, conducting crucial early research on modeling anthropogenic impacts on Earth’s climate. From 1992 until 2009, he worked at the University of Maryland and Rutgers University. Since 2009, he has been a professor and a chair (until 2021) of the Earth Science and Engineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. His work has brought significant advances in climate modeling, atmospheric physics, fluid dynamics, radiation transfer, and environmental sciences. Dr. Stenchikov contributed to the Nobel Prize-winning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC-AR4 of 2007. In 2022, he received the Future of Life Award from the Future of Life Institute for developing and popularizing the science of nuclear winter.