Gavin Schmidt, Ph.D., is a climate modeller at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and is interested in modeling past, present and future climate.

Schmidt works on developing and improving coupled climate models and, in particular, is interested in how their results can be compared to paleoclimatic proxy data. He also works on assessing the climate response to multiple forcings, such as solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases.

Schmidt received a BA (Hons) in Mathematics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from University College, London, and he worked as a postdoc at McGill University in Montreal.

He received a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change Research to work with NASA in 1996. He serves on the CLIVAR/PAGES Intersection and the Earth System Modeling Framework Advisory Panels. He was recently cited by Scientific American as one of the 50 Research leaders of 2004, and he has worked on education and outreach with the NASA Institute for Climates and Planets, the American Museum of Natural History, the College de France, the New York Academy of Sciences, and others. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Climate and has over 40 peer-reviewed publications. He is a contributing editor at http://www.realclimate.org/.