Prof. Tina Katopodes Chow
Open research positions
Postdoctoral researcher – atmospheric modeling to mitigate methane emissions from landfills – applications can currently be sent by email to tinakc@berkeley.edu even though the link says the deadline has passed
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 2024 graduate admissions is Dec. 11, 2023.
Graduate student researchers
Mohit Dubey (co-advised with Sebastien Biraud, LBNL) – fugitive methane emissions
Léo Guillotte – wildfire smoke data assimilation
Sienna White – wildfire smoke data assimilation
Adam Wise – wind energy simulations
Postdoctoral researchers
Rebecca Sugrue (co-advised with Neeta Thakur, UCSF) – wildfire smoke data assimilation and health impacts
Undergraduate researchers
Parker Yang – atmospheric modeling for landfill methane emissions
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 [dissertation]
Eli Goodfriend (PhD 2014) – adaptive mesh refinement for large-eddy simulation [dissertation]
Katie Lundquist (PhD 2010) – immersed boundary methods for urban atmospheric flow applications, now at LLNL [dissertation]
Nikola Marjanovic (PhD 2015) – atmospheric boundary layer simulations for wind energy [dissertation]
Jehan Rihani (PhD 2010) – land-atmosphere interactions [dissertation]
Jason Simon (PhD 2019) – atmospheric simulations in the gray zone, now at Duke University
Diane Taylor (PhD 2017) – atmospheric dispersion of methane [dissertation]
Dave Wiersema (PhD 2019) – urban dispersion simulations, now at LLNL
Bowen Zhou (PhD 2012) – stable-boundary layer simulations, now at Nanjing University [dissertation]
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