Christine Chiu – Professor

Phone: 970-491-8410
Email: Christine.Chiu@colostate.edu
Research and teaching website

Education

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences – Purdue University – West Lafayette, Indiana
• M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences – National Central University, Taiwan
• B.S. in Atmospheric Science – National Central University, Taiwan

Career Overview

Christine Chiu is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. Prior to joining CSU in October 2017, she was an associate professor at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, United Kingdom (2010-17), a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland–Baltimore County, and an associated scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2003-2010).

Teaching Interests

• Remote sensing
• Radiative transfer
• Cloud-aerosol-precipitaiton-radiation interactions

Research Interests

Christine Chiu’s research interests lie in remote sensing, radiative transfer, and cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation interactions. Her work includes developing novel methods for observing clouds and precipitation from active and passive measurements; investigating cloud properties and their radiative impact in a fully 3D condition; quantifying aerosol impacts on precipitation, and improving representativeness of cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation processes in models using remote sensing observations.

Awards, Honors, and Positions

• Fellow, Meteorological Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 2025
• CSU Art Corey Award for Outstanding International Contributions, 2025
• AMS The David and Lucille Atlas Remote Sensing Prize, 2024
• National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, 2010
• NASA/GSFC Climate and Radiation Branch Best Senior Author Publication, 2010
• Atmospheric Environment Reviewers Award, 2009
• NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres Best Senior Author Publication, 2006
• NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship, 2000
• Secretary General of International Radiation Commission, 2025–present
• Co-Chair of DOE/ASR Warm Boundary Layer Processes Working Group, 2023–present
• Member of NASA Earth Science Advisory Committee, 2023–2025
• Chair of DOE/ARM Cloud and Precipitation Measurement and Science Group, 2021–present
• Member of the Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment Program Committee
• Chair of AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee, 2015–2018
• Associate Editor of J. Geophysical Research–Atmosphere, 2017-2024
• Co-Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013-present