Prof. Tina Katopodes Chow

Open research positions

Graduate student researcher – atmospheric simulations of flow and transport in urban areas and/or complex terrain. Research areas of interest include local air quality and source inversion at the neighborhood scale, regional weather forecasting, wildfire smoke transport modeling, wind energy. The application deadline for Fall 2025 graduate admissions is in early December, 2024.

Graduate student researchers

Mohit Dubey (co-advised by Sebastien Biraud, LBNL) – fugitive methane emissions

Md Elius – atmospheric modeling for landfill methane emissions

Léo Guillotte – wildfire smoke data assimilation

Mengjuan Liu (co-advised by Bowen Zhou, Nanjing University) – gray zone simulations

Sienna White (currently advised by Mark Stacey) – wildfire smoke data assimilation

Parker Yang – atmospheric dispersion modeling

Postdoctoral researchers

Harold Gamarro – gray zone simulations

Rebecca Sugrue (co-advised with Neeta Thakur, UCSF) – wildfire smoke data assimilation and health impacts

Former PhD students

Jingyi Bao (PhD 2018) – immersed boundary method

Alex Connolly (PhD 2020) – simulations over mountainous terrain, now at Columbia University

Megan Daniels (PhD 2010) – simulations of flow over mountainous terrain

Eli Goodfriend (PhD 2014) – adaptive mesh refinement for large-eddy simulation

Katie Lundquist (PhD 2010) – immersed boundary methods for urban atmospheric flow applications, now at LLNL

Nikola Marjanovic (PhD 2015) – atmospheric boundary layer simulations for wind energy

Jehan Rihani (PhD 2010) – land-atmosphere interactions

Jason Simon (PhD 2019) – atmospheric simulations in the gray zone, now at Duke University

Diane Taylor (PhD 2017) – atmospheric dispersion of methane

Dave Wiersema (PhD 2019) – urban dispersion simulations, now at LLNL

Adam Wise (PhD 2024) – wind energy simulations

Bowen Zhou (PhD 2012) – stable-boundary layer simulations, now at Nanjing University

Former postdoctoral researchers

Bobby Arthur – stably-stratified flows, now at LLNL

Bicheng Chen – urban dispersion simulations, now at Xiamen University

Mike Dvorak – turbulence and wind energy, now at Sailor’s Energy

Xiaoming Shi – LES and clouds, now at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Former MS researchers – partial list

Macy Frost Chang – machine learning for offshore wind energy (MS thesis)

James Neher – simulations over complex terrain