Sustainability & Climate

• Chair of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2010 - 2013
• Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2002 - present
• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 1996 - 2002
• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 1991 - 1996

• American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
• International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring (IASCM)

• National Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1994
• Research Award for Foreign Specialists, PWRI, Japan, 1997

• Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2016–
• Lecturer in the Discipline of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2013-2016
• Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2013
• Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2003-2013
• Associate Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, 1999-2003
• Visiting Scientist, Center for Weather Prediction and Climate Studies (CPTEC), Brazil, 1996-1999

• 2016 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters

• Columbia University’s Associate Director, National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, 2017 - Present
• Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering, Columbia University, 2012 - Present
• Director, Sensing, Monitoring, and Robotics Laboratory, Columbia University, 2012 - Present
• Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine, 2011 - 2012
• Endowed Chair in the Center for Diversity in Engineering Education, University of California, Irvine, 2009 - 2011
• Founding Director, Center for Advanced Monitoring and Damage Inspection, University of California, Irvine, 2007 - 2011
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, University of California, Irvine, 1992 - 2011

• American Society of Civil Engineers

• CAREER Award by National Science Foundation (NSF) (1995)
• The Alfred Noble Prize jointly by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), and Western Society of Engineers (WSE) (1995)
• The Collingwood Prize by ASCE (1995)
• Outstanding Achievement Award by Chinese Consulate General (1996)
• Charles Pankow Finalist Award for Innovation by ASCE-CERF (1997)
• Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for innovative, interdisciplinary and practical research on sensing, monitoring and controlling dynamic response of civil engineering systems subjected to earthquake and wind loads, awarded by ASCE (1999)
• Outstanding Research Award by CEE Department, University of California, Irvine (2000)
• Outstanding Alumni Award by University of Electro-Communications, Japan (2001)
• Top Researcher on Wearable Sensors by MIT Technology Review (2004)
• Best Presentation Award by Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (2006)
• Bridge Doctor, a special feature in NBC Nightly News (2007)
• The Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award by HSSoE, University of California, Irvine (2007)
• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (2008)
• 20 Women to Watch, OC Metro Business Magazine (2008)
• Best Paper Award for “Robust Joint Torque Estimation and High-Speed Calibration for EMG Sensor Suits” published in Transactions of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in 2006 by Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (2008)
• Appointed Endowed Chair in Center for Diversity in Engineering Education by University of California, Irvine (2009)
• Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research by University of California, Irvine (2009)
• Appointed Chancellor’s Professor by University of California, Irvine (2011)
• Best Paper Award for the paper “Microwave Non-Destructive Evaluation of Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Structures” that Best Advances the State-of-the-Art in Antenna Measurements by the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy (2011)
• Top 20 Civil Engineering Professors by Online Engineering Programs (2016)

• Professor, Columbia University, 07/98 - Present
• Vice-Chairman, Columbia University, 07/03 - 07/05
• Acting Chairman, Columbia University, 01/03 - 07/03
• Associate Professor, Columbia University, 07/88 - 07/98
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 07/83 - 07/88
• Lecturer, Columbia University, 01/83 - 07/83

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers

• Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, January 2013 – Present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, July 2008 – December, 2012
• Civil Engineer, Transportation Laboratory, California Department of Transportation, October 2006 – July 2008
• Software Engineer, Risk Electronic Science & Technology Co. Ltd., China, October 1998 – July 1999

• American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
• Society of Engineering Science (SES)
• United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
• The International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

• NSF Career Award, NSF CMMI - Structural Materials and Mechanics, “Energy in sustainable infrastructure – multi-scale/physical approach to a novel hybrid solar roofing panel”, 2010-2015.
• The Second Best Scientific Paper for 2012 in the International Journal "Road Materials and Pavement Design” - H.M. Yin, B. Lai, Viscoelastic modeling and characterization of zeolite modified asphalt binder considering phase transformation and air void interaction, Road Materials and Pavement Design, 13, 279-299, 2012. 

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring

• Fellow, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2013
• ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, 2008
• National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2002

• Professor, Columbia University, July 2010 to present
• Chair, Smart Cities Center of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2013 - present
• Director of Research, Robert A.W. Carleton Laboratory, Columbia University, 2013 - present
• Associate Professor, Columbia University, July 2003 to June 2010
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University, July 1998 to June 2003

• Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2020-
• Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018-2019

• Early Career Best Paper Award - Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) Section, Informs, 2023
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award - Energy Systems Division, IISE, 2023
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2022

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington Seattle
• MS, Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
• BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University

• Plasma Physics (Controlled Fusion)
• Energy Science

• Associate Professor, Applied Physics, Columbia University, 2021-Present
• Scientist, General Atomics, 2014-2020

• American Physical Society
• American Nuclear Society

• Fellow, American Physical Society, 2024
• Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research, 2021
• Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, American Physical Society, 2013
• Doctoral Fellowship, National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, 2009
• Graduate Fellowship, American Nuclear Society, 2008

• PhD, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BEng, Engineering Physics, Queen's University Canada

C. Paz-Soldan, et al, A novel path to runaway electron mitigation via deuterium injection and current-driven MHD instability, Nucl. Fusion 61 116058 (2021)

C. Paz-Soldan, Plasma Performance and Operational Boundaries without ELMs in DIII-D, topical review in Plasma Phys. Contrl. Fusion 63 083001 (2021)

C. Paz-Soldan et al, Recent DIII-D advances in runaway electron measurement and model validation, Nucl. Fusion, 59 066025 (2019)

C. Paz-Soldan et al, Spatio-temporal Evolution of Runaway Electron Momentum Distributions in Tokamaks. Phys. Rev. Lett., 118 255002 (2017)

C. Paz-Soldan et al, Observation of a Multimode Plasma Response and its Relationship to Density Pumpout and Edge-Localized Mode Suppression. Phys. Rev. Lett., 114 105001 (2015)

C. Paz-Soldan et al, Stabilization of the resistive wall mode by a rotating solid conductor. Phys. Rev. Lett., 107 245001 (2011)

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• Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2020-Present
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2015-2019

• Materials Research Society
• Electrochemical Society
• American Chemical Society

• CUAFA Young Investigator Award, 2024
• Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, 2020-2022
• Materials Today Rising Star Award, 2022
• Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award, 2021
• 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, 2021
• IAAM Innovation Award of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), 2020
• Emerging Investigators Award by Journal of Materials Chemistry A., 2019
• Nano Research Young Innovator Awards in NanoEnergy, 2019
• Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage, 2017
• MRS Postdoctoral Award for 2015 Spring Meeting, 2015
• World Changing Ideas Selected by Scientific American, 2014
• Dan Cubicciotti Award of Electrochemical Society (honorable mention), 2010

• PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• MS, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• BS, Physics, Peking University

• Affiliate Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2004-2023
• Alliance Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaisaeau, France, 2015
• Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2000-present
• Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2000-present
• Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 1995-2000
• Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 1990-1995
• Instructor in Applied Mathematics [non-tenure track], M.I.T., 1988-1990

• American Meteorological Society
• American Geophysical Union
• European Geosciences Union
• American Physical Society
• American Astronomical Society
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

• Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2019
• Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2015
• Best Teacher of the Year, Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, 2012
• Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, Columbia University 2008
• Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia SEAS Alumni Association 1997

• Professor of Professional Practice, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2012–Present
• Research Vice President, BASF Catalysts (formerly Engelhard), 2008-2012 (retired)
• Research Fellow, Engelhard (now BASF), 1990-2008
• Section Head, Engelhard, 1976-1995
• Research Chemist, Corning Glass Works, 1968-1976 

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Chemical Society 

• Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2016
• Ciapetta Lectureship Award sponsored by the North American Catalysis Society, 2008
• Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Practice Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2005
• International Precious Metal Institute (IPMI) Award for Outstanding Contributions in the field of precious metal catalysis, 2001
• Cross Canada Lectureship Award sponsored by the Canadian Catalysis Society, 1998  
• Co-author of three textbooks on environmental and industrial catalysis

• PhD: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1968
• BS: Manhattan College 1964 

• Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2024 –
• La Von Duddleson Krumb Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2020 – 2024
• Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2014 – 2015
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SCELSE (Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering), NTU, Singapore, 2014 – 2015
• Assistant Manager, National Environment Agency, Singapore, 2004 – 2008

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
• North American Membrane Society (NAMS)
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering (FOE, NAE)
• International Water Association (IWA)
• International Desalination Association (IDA)

• ACS ES&T Engineering Best Papers of 2022 (Research Articles), 2023
• Young Talent Award, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2022
• Emerging Investigator, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2021
• James J. Morgan Early Career Award: Honorable Mention, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020
• Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019
• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, CH2M Hill/AEESP, 2015
   

• PhD, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
• MS, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
• BE, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)