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.

Education

  • 1992 Ph.D. Physics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 1989 M.Sc. Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
  • 1986 B.Sc. Physics, University of São Paulo University (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

Honors & Awards

Felow, American Geophysical Union, 2023

Excellence in Mentoring Award, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 2023

Distinguished Scientific Technological Accomplishment Award, American Meteorological Society, Committee on Climate Variability and Change, 2020

Editor's Award, Journal of Climate, American Meteorological Society, 2019

Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union, 2010