Rate My Professor Drew Shindell

Drew Shindell is the Nicholas Professor of Earth Science at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He earned a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Stony Brook University in 1995. From 1995 to 2014, he served as a NASA postdoctoral fellow and then climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he also taught atmospheric chemistry at Columbia University for more than a decade. He joined Duke University in 2014 as Professor of Climate Sciences and was appointed Nicholas Professor of Earth Science in 2016.

Shindell’s research focuses on climate change, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and the connections between these areas and public policy. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to major assessments, including as Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in 2013 and the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C in 2018. He chaired the 2011 UNEP/WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone and the 2021 Global Methane Assessment. Shindell chairs the Scientific Advisory Panel to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and serves on the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board. He has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received awards from Scientific American, NASA, the NSF, and the EPA.