Chilean physicist and climatologist

Chile’s Environment Minister Maisa Rojas has a degree in science, majoring in physics, from the Universidad de Chile, a Ph.D. in atmospheric physics from Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and postdoctoral studies from Colombia University in the United States. She was Director of the Universidad de Chile’s Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 until assuming her post with the current administration. Her areas of research include paleoclimate and regional climate change and using numerical climate models as analytical tools for impact assessments in sectors such as agriculture and water resources.

She was Coordinator of the COP25 Scientific Committee within the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, and sat on the COP25 Presidential Advisory Council, as well as serving as coordinator of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Climate Change. She was the lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and coordinating author of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).