Simona Bordoni is an atmospheric dynamicist interested in the coupling between large-scale atmospheric circulations and surface climate. Using observations and the model hierarchy, her research investigates fundamental dynamical mechanisms implicated in the response of the climate system to perturbations acting on different time scales. A primary focus has been the study of monsoons and tropical circulations, and processes determining their location, intensity and different geographical features.

Bordoni received an Italian Laurea in Physics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1996. She completed her PhD in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California in Los Angeles in 2007, and later in the same year she was a Moore Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. She then worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Advanced Study Program. She was on the faculty at Caltech, first as assistant and then full professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, from 2009 to 20019. In  2019, she moved to the University of Trento (Italy) to start a position as a Full Professor of Atmospheric Physics. Her work has been recognised by a number of honours and awards, including the 2014 ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation) Young Scientist Award and the 2009 James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award from the American Geophysical Union, 2009.

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