Dorian AbbotProfessor

Research Focus:

Climate, paleoclimate, and planetary habitability

Email:

abbot@uchicago.edu

Office:

Hinds 549

Biography

I have an undergraduate degree in physics (2004, Harvard) and a PhD in applied math (2008, Harvard). I came to the University of Chicago as a Chamberlin Fellow in 2009 and stayed on as a faculty member in 2011.

Research Interests

I use mathematical and computational models to understand and explain fundamental problems in Earth and Planetary Science. I work best with students who have strong mathematical skills. Right now I am focused on rare event sampling and machine learning in weather and climate.

Selected Publications

• Lancelin, Amaury, Alexander Wikner, Laurent Dubus, Clément Le Priol, Dorian S. Abbot, Freddy Bouchet, Pedram Hassanzadeh, and Jonathan Weare (2026), AI-Boosted Rare Event Sampling to Characterize Extreme Weather, Physical Review Letters, 137(6), 064201. arxiv

• Sun, Y. Qiang, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Mohsen Zand, Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Jonathan Weare, and Dorian S. Abbot. "Can AI weather models predict out-of-distribution gray swan tropical cyclones?." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 21 (2025): e2420914122. arxiv