Suzana J. Camargo

Suzana J. Camargo is a Professor of Climate at the Climate School and a Co-director of the Climate School Postdoctoral Program. She is an expert on extreme weather events, in particular tropical cyclones and their relationship with climate on various time scales. Her research includes exploring predictability, seasonal forecasting, climate change projections, as well as the risk and impacts of extreme weather events. She teaches courses on climate, extreme events and natural disasters.  

Originally from Brazil, where she studied Physics at the University of São Paulo, she received a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Munich in Germany. She is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has received the American Meteorological Society Distinguished Scientific/Technological Accomplishment Award in Climate Variability and Change. She has been an editor of the prestigious AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters since December 2017.