Mingfang Ting, Professor of Climate at the Columbia Climate School, received her Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University. As a climate scientist, Dr. Ting’s research spans a broad range of topics in climate variability and change, including understanding weather and climate extremes under the warming climate, Arctic sea ice variability and change, decadal and multidecadal climate variability, hydroclimate variability, and climate impacts on agriculture and human health. She is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award, an elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and American Geophysical Union (AGU), and a recipient of the AMS Distinguished Scientific/Technological Accomplishment Award in Climate Variability and Change. In 2021, she was named one of the “world’s top climate scientists” by Reuters based on the quality and quantity of their scholarly publications on the topic of climate change science. Up till recently, she was the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Climate, one of the most impactful journals in physical climate science. She is also the Co-Senior Director for Education of the Climate School and Co-Director of the Master of Arts in Climate and Society, the flagship master’s program in the Columbia Climate School. She has been teaching climate science at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Columbia University since 2004.