Ali Mashayek is an associate professor of climate dynamics at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He previously held positions at Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics from the University of Toronto in 2013. He leads the Climate Research, Environmental Solutions & Technology group, where his team studies the physical and biological processes in the ocean that lie at the heart of the ocean's role in regulating the climate system on a wide range of timescales.
His research focuses on physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and climate dynamics, including data-driven methods. He is also an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and a Physics Fellow at Peterhouse. Mashayek is available to supervise doctoral students and for consultancy.