Simone Kotthaus is Assistant Professor at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), École Polytechnique, with a specific interest in urban atmosphere dynamics and their impact on critical risk factors, such as heat and air pollution. Her research focuses on surface-atmosphere exchange processes driven by the built-up surface, vegetation, and anthropogenic activities, in the context of synoptic weather conditions. Encouraging community engagement, she is building an interdisciplinary knowledge hub on urban greening in the Paris region to support city resilience.

Using a range of measurement techniques, her work on novel retrieval methods continues to result in advanced observational data products and tools that are of high value for process studies, the evaluation of numerical simulations, and teaching activities. Simone received her PhD in Micrometeorology from King’s College London in 2014 and has since been researching urban environments of various complexities at the University of Reading, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace and École Polytechnique.