Rate My Professor Zouhair Lachkar

Zouhair Lachkar is a Senior Research Scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi, where he has held positions since 2014, including at the Center for Prototype Climate Modeling and subsequently at the Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, in 2007. Prior to that, he obtained an M.Sc. in Meteorology, Oceanography and Environment from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, in 2002, along with a Meteorologist Diploma from the National School of Meteorology in Toulouse and a Master of Engineering in Meteorology and Environment from the Hassania Institute of Civil Engineering in Casablanca, Morocco. From 2007 to 2014, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate and Research Associate at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, following earlier roles as a Research Associate at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement in France and as a Meteorologist at the Moroccan Weather Service.

His research focuses on oceanography, climate, and marine biogeochemistry, with an emphasis on numerical modeling of ocean circulation and biogeochemical cycles. Key areas include the dynamics of oxygen minimum zones in the northern Indian Ocean and eastern boundary upwelling systems, ocean deoxygenation, ocean acidification, the marine carbon cycle, and the impacts of climate change. Lachkar has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals. He serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Marine Science and on the editorial board of Deep Sea Research Part II. He is a member of the SOLAS Implementation Teams for upwelling systems and the Indian Ocean, as well as the RECCAP2 project coordinated by the Global Carbon Project. He has received awards including the IMBER Best Young Scientist Award and has delivered invited keynote presentations at international conferences.