Alan Robock, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Sciences, and member of the Meteorology Undergraduate Program and the Atmospheric Science Graduate Program.

Robock's research involves many aspects of climate change, including global warming, geoengineering, nuclear winter, the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, soil moisture, and the impacts of climate change.

He has published more than 400 research articles, including over 240 peer-reviewed papers.  He is a member and Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Robock was a lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.   He is a Participant in the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.