Biosketch for Sara C. Pryor

Professor Sara C Pryor received her doctoral degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of East Anglia and then served as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She obtained her first faculty appointment at Indiana University where she obtained the rank of Provost’s Professor and then joined Cornell University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science in 2014 as Professor of Atmospheric Science.

Sara is part of a new generation of scientists at Cornell who are conducting research across traditional disciplinary boundaries and engaging in grand challenges using a wide suite of big data analytics on experimental data collected by her group and also high-resolution, high-fidelity atmospheric simulations.

Sara is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is author of over 150 journal articles, editor of two books and has served in multiple capacities for organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the US National Climate Assessment. She was on the editorial board of the Journal of Geophysical Research (2010-2015), and is now on the editorial board of a Nature Partner Journal: Climate and Atmospheric Science (2016 -).

Professor Pryor’s current research is funded by the U.S Department of Energy, NASA and NSF, and focusses on reducing uncertainty in regional climate projections via improved understanding of aerosol forcing and other drivers of climate variability, and removing bottlenecks to expansion of renewable energy technologies.