Professor Soroosh Sorooshian is Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds the Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering and is founding Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing. His research spans hydrology, hydrometeorology, hydroclimate modelling, remote sensing, climate studies, and water resources management, with particular emphasis on satellite-based precipitation measurement, flood forecasting, and water challenges in arid and semi-arid regions.
Professor Sorooshian has held major leadership and advisory roles in international water and climate science. He served for a decade as Chair of the Scientific Steering Group of the Global Energy and Water Exchanges programme (GEWEX) of the World Climate Research Programme and has contributed to scientific initiatives and advisory activities involving WMO, UNESCO, NASA, NOAA, and other national and international organizations.
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has received numerous major honors, including NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, the American Geophysical Union’s Robert E. Horton Medal and William Bowie Medal, and the American Meteorological Society’s Hydrologic Sciences Medal.