Sustainability & Climate

• 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)

• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2016–2020
• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2020–

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)                          
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS)

• Winner of International Data Corporation’s Smart Cities North America Awards, 2023
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp), 2022
• Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (INFORMS), 2022
• Visiting research fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany, 2021-2023
• National Science Foundation, CAREER Award, 2020
• Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award, 2020
• Transportation Data Analytics Contest Winner, Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2017
• Dafermos Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, TRB Network Modeling Committee, 2017
• Chan Wui & Yunyin Rising Star Workshop Fellowship for Early Career Professionals, TRB (only 6 fellows were selected internationally), 2016
• ITS SIG Outstanding Presentation Award, INFORMS, 2013

• PhD, Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• BS, Civil Engineering, Tongji University

• Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023-
• Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2019-2023
• Senior Vice President of Email Protection, Barracuda Networks, 2016-2019
• CEO and co-founder, Sookasa (Acquired by Barracuda Networks), 2012-2016

• ACM CIDR Best Paper Award, 2024
• Usenix OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, 2022
• NSF CAREER Award, 2022
• Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2021
• Usenix Security Distinguished Paper, 2019
• ACM EuroSys Best Poster Award, 2018
• SC Rising Star Award, 2017
• Usenix ATC Best Student Paper, 2013
• Sohnis Promising Scientist Award, 2011
• Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2011
• Leonard J. Shustek Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2010
• Technion President's Honors List, 2009-2010

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• MS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• BS, Computer and Software Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

• Associate professor of chemical engineering, Columbia University, 2012–2019
• Assistant professor of chemical engineering, Columbia University, 2007–2012

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023
• Mellichamp Emerging Leaders Lecturer, U.C. Santa Barbara, 2018
• Kenneth T. Whitby Award (AAAR), 2015
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009-2014
• ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator, 2009
• NASA Earth System Science Fellow, 2000-2003

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, MIT
• MS, Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT
• BS, Chemical Engineering, Caltech 

• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2013 – Present

• American Concrete Institute (ACI)
• American Ceramics Society (ACerS)
• International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2017
• Forbes’ 30 under 30: Science, 2015
• Cements Division Early Career Award, American Ceramics Society, 2022

• PhD, Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
• MS, Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
• BS, Civil Engineering, Columbia University

• Society of Columbia Graduates' Great Teacher Award in Columbia College for the 2022/2023
• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)  2022
• Columbia Engineering Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award 2020
• SEAS Alumni Teaching Award 2004
• SEAS Kim Award 2004
• DEES Outstanding Teaching Award 1998 & 2002
• Marshall Scholar 1985

• Professor, DEES/APAM Columbia University, 2008
• Associate Professor, DEES/APAM, Columbia University, 2000-2008
• Storke-Doherty Lecturer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 1997-1999

• Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom (2021-2022)
• Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom (2017-2021)

• Board Member, International Building Performance and Simulation
• Association (IBPSA) England Chapter (2021-2022)
• Conference Chair, Building Simulation and Optimisation Conference 2022, Loughborough, England
• Co-opted Board Member, IBPSA England Chapter (2019-2021)

• UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Innovation Fellow (2018-2021)
• US NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Fellow (2011-2014)

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska Lincoln