13 Facts About Michael Ghil

Michael Ghil is an American and European mathematician and physicist, focusing on the climate sciences and their interdisciplinary aspects.

Michael Ghil is a founder of theoretical climate dynamics, as well as of advanced data assimilation methodology.

Michael Ghil has systematically applied dynamical systems theory to planetary-scale flows, both atmospheric and oceanic.

Michael Ghil is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Michael Ghil spent his childhood in Romania before moving to Israel.

Michael Ghil studied mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York from where he received a Master's in February 1973 and a Ph.

Michael Ghil was affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, from September 1971 until May 1987, first as a Research Assistant and then as a Research Professor, via intermediate appointments.

In 1985 Michael Ghil was appointed a full professor of Climate Dynamics at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as a chairman of the same Department from September 1988 to June 1992.

Michael Ghil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris from September 2012.

Michael Ghil has played an important role in the foundations of modern theoretical climate dynamics.

Michael Ghil's analysis complemented the ones by Budyko and Sellers and played a key role for understanding the multistability of the Earth system, which features competing snowball and warm states.

Michael Ghil introduced the use of advanced spectral methods for the analysis of chaotic geophysical time series, and most prominently the singular-spectrum analysis technique.

Recently, Michael Ghil proposed the pullback attractor as a mathematical framework able to encompass the random and time-dependent nature of the climate system.