Paquita Zuidema

Paquita Zuidema is a Dutch atmospheric and aerosol scientist who researches cloud processes, cloud radiative impacts, and aerosol-cloud interactions. She is a professor and chair of the department of atmospheric sciences at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami.

Life Zuidema was born in Holland, the daughter of cultural anthropologist R. Tom Zuidema. She lived in Peru from the ages of four to seven. She completed a M.S. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.

Zumidema researches the characterization and understanding of cloud processes and cloud radiative impacts.