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Welcome to My Website!
My first name originates from the French word "Muguet", which means "Lilly of the Valley". Click on Muguet to learn the correct pronunciation.
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I am a ​Citizen of the United States.

I am  a Research Scientist at the Center for Global Change Science,  Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 
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I study climate change and its impacts in regional and local scales through interdisciplinary studies and cultivating communication between climate scientists and the end user.
To study changes in the mean regional climate and extreme events and to support regional sustainability studies, I created the First high-resolution (3 km horizontal resolution) climate projections for the Northeastern United States, which consist of 65 years of simulations with hourly output of more than 200 climate variables. (2 Petabytes of data, public climate dataset). Check out the Climate Projections tab above for detailed projected changes in the Northeastern U.S.

The high-resolution convection-permitting regional climate modeling methodology I developed to downscale climate projections and reanalysis for the Northeastern United States is cited in the 2021 IPCC report for improving mean and extreme precipitation  and for adding value and new insights to regional climate change. The methodology is also able to improve mean and extreme temperatures.

Check out the report from our latest partnership & work with U.S. National Grid on resilient energy infrastructure, physical climate risks on the Northeastern U.S. energy infrastructure with Dr. Sergey Paltsev (MIT JP & CEEPR, energy economist, IPCC coauthor). The final report is available here.
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To learn more about my research projects, explore the research tab above.


Check out my top read paper (which is also cited in the latest IPCC report) and the MIT News Story about my NE US climate projections & analysis with Professor Kerry Emanuel! 
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Our open-access paper  is now one of the Most Read papers of 2018-2019!

Read it here!



Recent Professional Training and Certificates

A selection of recent certifications I received. For more details on my other professional certificate trainings such as  Management of Urban Infrastructure, WRF (ARW, regional, DA, Chem, Hydro, Hurricane), CESM and ArcGIS as well as those on Mentoring contact me.
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​Professional Leadership Activities 
  • Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Centennial Committee.
  • Member of the AMS 2018 Annual Meeting Organizing Co​mmittee.
  • Reviewer for professional journals and publishers (Nature, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics,  and Atmospheric Research Letters).​


​Experience
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(August 2016- present)
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Center for Global Change Science (CGCS)
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JP)

Research Scientist  (November 2017 - Present)
Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
​Visiting Scientist (August 2016 - October 2017)
 Hosts:  Dr. Chien Wang, Professors Daniel J. Cziczo and David McGee
My Recent Research Projects:
Project 1:
Resilience of Urban Energy Infrastructure under Climate Change (U.S National Grid funded).

Project 2: Climate change & resilience in the Northeastern United States (NSF funded).


​Project 3: Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions in paleo Earth System Models​​ (NSF; co-PI with Yale-Harvard-Purdue co-PIs).
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Project 4: Improving Resiliency of Cities through: Climate aware Urban Design (Dar Group funded, with MIT Architecture)

​Project 5: Toward Resilient Cities: Using Deep Learning to Downscale Climate Model Projections (with ML expert Dr. Zikri BAYRAKTAR).

Project 6: Climate change in the ArabiaN Peninsula (MIT-KACST alliance funded).

Project 7: Climate change - Energy Interactions (Microsoft AI for Earth funded).



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​University of New Hampshire 
Earth Systems Research Center

Research Scientist II (2014-October 2017)
Regional Impacts of Climate Change
  • High Resolution Climate Modeling for the Northeastern United States to assess future changes in the mean and extreme climate events
  • Worked on an NSF EPSCoR funded Inter-Disciplinary Project to study Climate Change Impacts & Sustainability in the Northeastern United States

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Yale University
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (formerly Geology and Geophysics)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (2011-2014)

Post-Doctoral Supervisor: Professor Trude Storelvmo
  • Aerosol-Cloud- Climate Interactions & Climate Sensitivity in Earth System Models (ESM).
  • ​Parameterizations influencing Simulated Cloud Water Phase in Earth System Models
  • The First Study to compare cloud phase (liquid vs. ice) in ESMs and show simulated differences with observations
  • Collaborated with leading scientists, IPCC authors: Professors Ulrike Lohmann, Joyce Penner and Xiaohong Liu.

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​Penn State University
Department of Meteorology
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant (2005-2011)

Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Jerry Y. Harrington


  • ​​Surface - Boundary Layer - Cloud -Precipitation Interactions in Large Eddy Simulation studies of the Arctic
  • Interactions between cloud microphysics and dynamics in mixed phase clouds

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Istanbul Technical University
Department of Meteorological Engineering

Master's Student
  • Numerical Simulations of damaging and costly Extreme Precipitation, Flood Events in Istanbul
  • The First Numerical Weather Prediction Study in Istanbul

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