Dan Chavas

Dan Chavas is Professor of Atmospheric Science at Purdue University in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. His lab does use-inspired fundamental and applied research on extreme weather in a warming world. Specifically, his research advances basic understanding of hurricanes, tornadoes, and severe thunderstorms, and uses this understanding to help make society more resilient to their hazards. He is part of the leadership team of the Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future as co-lead of the Risk and Resilience Research Community. Before Purdue, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Atmospheric Science from MIT and his B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Applied Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, Dan received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, and in 2024 he was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Award from the American Meteorological Society Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones. At Purdue, he founded the Purdue Weather Risk Internship program, which links students to internship opportunities in the emerging job market of weather-dependent decision-making. In his spare time he enjoys eating croissants, biking, and cheering on the Indiana Fever with his wife and two young kids.

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