Laure Zanna

Laure E. Zanna (Hebrew: לור זאנה) is a Climate Scientist and the Joseph B. Keller and Herbert B. Keller Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. She works on topics including climate system dynamics, the influence of the oceans on global scales, data science, and machine learning. In July 2019 she was awarded the Nicholas P. Fofonoff Award for Early Career Research by the American Meteorological Society for "exceptional creativity in the development and application of new concepts in ocean and climate dynamics." She is the lead principal investigator of the NSF-NOAA Climate Process Team on Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy, and she is also the lead investigator of an international effort to improve climate models with scientific machine learning called M2LInES.