Daniel Varon

Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics (effective July 2025)
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I'm interested in using satellites to help mitigate climate change and air pollution.

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I’m an atmospheric scientist interested in greenhouse gasses, air pollution, and satellite remote sensing. My work revolves around using satellite observations of atmospheric composition to better understand human impacts on the environment and identify opportunities to reduce them. A major focus has been on quantifying atmospheric methane emissions and trends across a range of scales. More recently, I’ve started investigating new ways of observing nitrogen oxide air pollution from space. I received my PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University in 2020 along with an MSc in applied mathematics. I continued as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and held a visiting postdoctoral fellowship at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs from 2021 to 2023.

Specialization and Research Interests

Satellite remote sensing of atmospheric composition, inverse problems in atmospheric modeling, and high-performance computing.

Teaching Interests

Remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry, applied mathematics, and scientific computing.

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