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Current Group Members


Mathieu Morlighem

Evans Family Professor

Principal Investigator

Ice-climate interactions, ice sheet contribution to sea level rise, ISSM founder and core developer

Cheng Gong

Postdoc

2020-present

Helheim Glacier, numerical methods for ice sheet modeling, inverse problems

Jessica Badgeley

Postdoc

2023-present

Data assimilation and transient calibration applied to Greenland outlet glaciers

Shivani Ehrenfeucht

Graduate Student

2018-present

Seasonal changes in Petermann’s ice flow speed, subglacial hydrology

Joel Wilner

Graduate Student

2021-present

Machine learning in ice sheet models, iceberg calving, radio glaciology, icy moons

Benjy Getraer

Graduate Student

2022-present

Ice-Ocean interactions, Thwaites Glacier

Mansa Krishna

Graduate Student

2022-present

Deep learning models applied to ice sheet and glacier dynamics

Francesca Baldacchino

Graduate Student

2020-present

Ross ice shelf dynamics

Gone, but not forgotten…


  • Josh Cuzzone (project scientist 2018-2021, now researcher at UCLA)

  • Tyler Pelle (PhD student, graduated in 2021, now postdoc at Scripps)

  • Thiago Dias dos Santos (postdoc 2018-2021, now at University of São Paulo)

  • Youngmin Choi (PhD student, graduated in 2020, now postdoc at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

  • Felicity McCormack (Fullbright Fellow 2019, now Senior Lecturer at Monash University)

  • Nicolas Mokus (Intern 2019, now PhD student at University of Otago)

  • Johannes Bondzio (postdoc 2017-2018)

  • Ellen Robo (Intern 2018)

  • Henning Åkesson (PhD student, graduated in 2018, now postdoc at University of Stockholm)

  • Claire Girard (Intern 2016, now working at Electricité de France)

  • Sylvestre Rebuffi (Intern 2015, now reserch scientist at DeepMind)

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