Arlene Fiore joined the faculty at MIT in 2021 as the Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She attended Harvard University, earning an AB in environmental geoscience in 1997 and completing her PhD studies in Earth and planetary sciences in 2003. Fiore spent seven years as a research scientist at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory before being appointed to the faculty at Columbia University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in 2011. Her research seeks to understand processes that control two-way interactions between air pollutants and the climate including linkages with global atmospheric composition and the terrestrial biosphere. Her group also investigates drivers of atmospheric oxidizing capacity and applies satellite datasets to address emerging needs of air quality and public health groups.

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