Claudia I. Mora

Claudia Mora is an American academic. She is the dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Decanal Chair in the Geosciences.

Early life and education Mora attended the University of New Mexico for undergraduate studies. It was in New Mexico that her interest was sparked in the field of geosciences when Mora embarked on a field mapping trip with her older sister.

Career Mora was a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she was the first woman to join the faculty in the department of geosciences. In 2020, Mora was appointed as dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences and the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Decanal Chair in the Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Awards and honors In 2018 the University of Wisconsin-Madison named Mora a distinguished alumna.

Selected publications