Bjerknessenterets mål er å forstå klima
til nytte for samfunnet.

Stefan Sobolowski. Photo: Gudrun Sylte

Presentation: Stefan Sobolowski

In February Stefan Sobolowski started as leader for the Global Climate research group. 

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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.