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Prof. Pedram Hassanzadeh

Group Director, Associate Professor

Department of Geophysical Sciences
Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Committee on Data Science
Director: AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative, Data Science Institute and Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth
Co-Director: Human-centered Weather Forecasts Initiative, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth

Associate Editor, Science Advances (AAAS journal)
Chair, Mathematics of Planet Earth Activity Group, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Email: pedramh@uchicago.edu
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Google scholar: Pedram Hassanzadeh
LinkedIn: Pedram Hassanzadeh
Twitter: @turbulentjet

CV: Updated in September2026
Math Genealogy of our group

Education:

  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2015-2016
  • Ziff Environmental Fellow: Center for the Environment, Harvard University, 2013-2015
  • PhD: Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2013
  • MA: Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 2012
  • MS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2007
  • BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2005

Academic Appointments:

  • Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Chicago, 2024-present
  • Associate Professor (with tenure), Rice University, 2023
  • Assistant Professor, Rice University, 2016-2023
  • Visiting Staff: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, WHOI, 2016-present
  • Faculty Associate: Baker College, Rice University, 2017-2023
  • Associate: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2016
  • Fellow: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, WHOI, 2012

Honors & Awards:

  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021
  • Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2020
  • Early-Career Research Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program, 2018
  • Ziff Environmental Fellowship, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2013–2015
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2012
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2009–2011
  • Outstanding Preliminary Examination Award, ME Department, UC Berkeley, 2009
  • Jonathan Laitone Memorial Scholarship, ME Department, UC Berkeley, 2009
  • International Graduate Student Award, University of Waterloo, 2005–2007

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