BIO
Sandrine Bony is Director of Research with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), working at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) of Sorbonne University (Paris). Her main research interests are the role of clouds in climate and the response of the climate system to human activity. As well as heading the LMD’s climate modeling team, since 2012 she has co-led the World Climate Research Programme’s Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity, an international effort whose goal is to provide actionable information on this key dimension of climate change science to public and private decision makers. She was a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report for which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Prize, and is a former editor of the Journal of Climate and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological System, as well as being an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences, among other distinctions.
