Expert in Climate Science, Atmospheric Research, and Earth Systems Modeling
Dr. Manvendra Dubey is a Fellow in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with a Ph.D. from Harvard University in stratospheric ozone photochemistry. A President’s Gold Medalist from IIT Kanpur, where he conducted research under Prof. P. T. Narasimhan, he brings together three decades of rigorous scientific inquiry spanning laboratory experiments, field measurements, and earth system modeling.
Dr. Dubey’s research has made significant contributions to climate and atmospheric science. He has conducted targeted greenhouse gas and aerosol observations to verify emission inventories and validate climate model parameterizations, demonstrated the critical role of wildfire smoke in nuclear winter and climate dynamics, and discovered the methane hot spot at Four Corners, developing novel methods to monitor emissions from coal mining and power plants. He has led research programs with cumulative funding exceeding $50 million.
Dr. Dubey is an AAAS Fellow, a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and a member of the UN panel on nuclear war effects. He delivered the prestigious 2023 Keeling Lecture and received R&D 100 Awards in both 2019 and 2022 for advanced measurement and AI techniques. He has mentored 22 postdoctoral researchers and 50 students, and his scholarly output includes approximately 175 peer-reviewed publications with over 13,100 citations and an h-index of 61.
His current work focuses on building bridges between the public and private sectors across interdisciplinary opportunities in energy harvesting, critical minerals, and national security. He advises foundations including SPARK and the Simons Foundation on earth system resilience, and remains actively engaged in sustainability outreach, including an invited talk at the 2025 FACE Symposium at Stanford.