Andrew Dessler is a climate scientist who studies both the science and politics of climate change. He is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and director of Texas A&M's Texas Center for Extreme Weather.
His scientific research revolves around intersection of climate change and human society, with the goal of helping us better cope with the impacts of climate change. Recent work has quantified climate extremes and how climate change can alter them, as well as analyzing how climate change will stress crucial energy, water, and other infrastructure and human systems.
Before that, his scientific research revolved around climate feedbacks, in particular how water vapor and clouds act to amplify warming from the carbon dioxide that humans emit. Before that, he worked on stratospheric ozone depletion.
During the last year of the Clinton Administration, he served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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His educational background includes a B.A. in physics from Rice University and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. He also did postdoctoral work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and spent nine years on the research faculty of the University of Maryland. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the energy group at The First Boston Corporation doing mergers and acquisitions analysis.
He lives in College Station, TX with his wife, two kids, and two lazy dogs.