Shuyi Chen
Shuyi Chen

Shuyi Chen has agreed to serve as the UW College of the Environment’s associate dean for research, effective September 16, 2021. In this role she will foster multidisciplinary collaborations, promote and support the range of basic and applied research programs across the College and University, and help PIs identify opportunities to partner and collaborate with universities and research organizations both in the U.S. and around the world.

Shuyi S. Chen is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Her research focuses on high-impact weather such as hurricanes and intraseasonal variability that affect the global weather and climate using airborne and satellite observations and numerical models. She led a research group at UW that developed a next-generation, high-resolution atmosphere-wave-ocean coupled model to better understand and predict hurricanes, winter storms, coastal flooding and ocean transport in events of oil spill and other hazards. Chen has been a lead scientist of many major national and international field campaigns. She has served several times as a leading expert to testify before the US Congress on future weather research and forecasting. She served as the Vice Chair of the National Academies’ Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate. She has been elected as Councilor of the AMS and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of 120 North American universities on research and training in atmospheric sciences and related Earth system sciences.

Chen succeeds Bruce Nelson, who will be returning to his full-time appointment as a professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences after serving the last year in his second stint as the associate dean for research.