Elfatih Eltahir

Career and research Eltahir continued working at MIT after his Sc.D. as a post-doctoral associate before being promoted to assistant professor in 1994. In 1995, he became the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair (1995–1998). In 1998, he became an Associate Professor and then a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2003. He is the H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and the Director of the MIT-Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) Research Program which focuses on sustainable development in Africa.

Eltahir's research focuses on developing numerical models, that are verified against satellite observations, to study how global climate change may impact society through changes in water availability and disease outbreaks, especially in Africa and Asia.

Award and honours Eltahir received NASA's New Investigator Award in 1996, and Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences for his work on Climate Change in 1999. He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008, and then received AGU's Hydrologic Sciences Award in 2017.

In 2023, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries. ) and Mohamed.

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