Prof. Georgiy Stenchikov is a chair of the Earth Sciences and Engineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology since 2009
He began his research in the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he focused on numerical methods and radiation gas dynamics. He led a research group in the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences that studied anthropogenic impacts on the Earth’s climate and environmental systems.
Since 1992, Prof. Stenchikov worked in the US conducting interdisciplinary studies in the broad field of climate modeling, atmospheric physics, and environmental sciences. For his work on climate impact modeling, Prof. Stenchikov was awarded a Prize from the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, a Gold Medal from the Russian National Exhibition, outstanding scientific paper awards from the American Geophysical Union Journal and the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.
He also co-authored the Nobel Prize winning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4.
