Stefan Sobolowski is theme leader for Global Climate at the Bjerknes Centre. He is also project leader of Impetus4Change (I4C) through NORCE.
Education:
-Complicated. Bachelors in Anthropology at Vassar College. Masters in physical Geography at Hunter College, and then PhD in Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.
Work experience:
-I have waited on more tables and poured more late-night/early-morning coffees than I care to remember.
What will you bring into the new role you have at the Bjerknes Centre?
-Empathy, curiosity, respect.
What is important for you research-wise, going forward?
-We still lack robust physical understanding of how climate change will play out at the scales that matter most i.e., where the impacts are experienced, and adaptation must happen. This, in a nutshell, is my primary research motivation. I employ a wide array of tools to work towards this goal from physical models of varying complexity and scales to impacts models to purely statistical deep learning emulators of the climate system.