Laure Zanna, Ph.D.

Zanna is a climate physicist and professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She received the 2020 Fofonoff Award from the American Meteorological Society “for exceptional creativity in the development and application of new concepts in ocean and climate dynamics.” She is the lead principal investigator of M²LInES, an international collaboration sponsored by Schmidt Futures dedicated to improving climate models using scientific machine learning. She is also the geoscience director for the National Science Foundation–funded Science and Technology Center LEAP (Learning the Earth with AI and Physics). She is also on the advisory boards of KITP, CESM and several NSF-funded Institutes.