Raymond Pierrehumbert

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert FRS is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and a co-author of the National Research Council report on abrupt climate change. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, which was used to launch collaborative work on the climate of early Mars with collaborators in Paris. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Republic of France. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and sits on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2020, Pierrehumbert was elected to the Royal Society.[1]

Raymond Pierrehumbert FRS
Born	Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University
Spouse(s)	Janet Pierrehumbert
Awards	Fellow of the AAAS, Ordre des Palmes académiques, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields	Geophysics, climatology
Institutions	University of Chicago University of Oxford
Thesis	The structure and stability of large vortices in an inviscid flow (1980)
Notable students	Joshua Wurman

Pierrehumbert's central research interest is how climate works as a system and developing idealized mathematical models to be used to address questions of climate science such as how the earth kept from freezing over: the faint young sun paradox.[2] Current interests include climate of extrasolar planets.

Pierrehumbert contributes to RealClimate.

Pierrehumbert is married to Janet Pierrehumbert, professor of Language Modeling at the University of Oxford.