Paulo Ceppi

Paulo Ceppi is an Associate Professor in Climate Science at Imperial College London's Department of Physics, part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington (2015) and degrees from ETH Zurich (MSc 2010, BSc 2008). His research focuses on global climate dynamics, including climate feedback mechanisms, cloud-radiative interactions, and midlatitude atmospheric dynamics.

Key achievements include a 2023 ERC Starting Grant (€1.5M) to study cloud impacts on climate and a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, Scientific American, and Carbon Brief, and he contributed to Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book.

Research interests span climate feedbacks, jet stream variability, and the role of Southern Ocean warming in global energy imbalances. His team includes PhD students and postdocs, with recent projects analyzing climate model biases and teleconnections between ENSO and regional climate patterns.

Lab/Team: Active in climate dynamics research with collaborators worldwide, focusing on advancing theoretical frameworks for climate system interactions and their societal impacts.