Paul O'Gorman is a Professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the Faculty Chair of the EAPS Committee on Education and as the EAPS Graduate Officer. His research focuses on understanding how climate change affects atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns, particularly extreme events. Education: BA in Theoretical Physics, Trinity College Dublin MSc in High-Performance Computing, Trinity College Dublin PhD in Aeronautics with Minor in Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology Research Interests include atmospheric dynamics, hydrological cycle responses to climate change, moist convection, and the application of machine learning to climate modeling. His work addresses regional variability in extreme precipitation, vertical warming profiles in the tropics, and the fluid dynamics of land-ocean warming contrasts. Scientific Awards : Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lectureship (2023), American Meteorological Society MIT School of Science Graduate Teaching Prize (2018) Recent Contributions include co-leading the MIT Climate Grand Challenges flagship project "Preparing for a new world of weather and climate extremes" , which develops tools for predicting climate extremes and transitioning to low-carbon resources. He has also explored the asymmetrical generalization capabilities of machine learning algorithms in climate models under warming versus cooling scenarios.








