Dr. Kim Cobb is a Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Director of Georgia Tech’s Global Change Program. She is also the ADVANCE Professor in the College of Science, charged with furthering Georgia Tech’s goals in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Kim’s research centers on climate change, spanning from impacts to solutions. She has received numerous awards for her research, most notably a NSF CAREER Award in 2007, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008. She is a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report, due for release in 2021.

She received her B.A. from Yale University in 1996, and her Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2002. Kim spent two years at Caltech in the Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2004.