People

Inez Fung is Professor of Atmospheric Science, in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998 as the founding director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center. She was also the founding director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.

Fung studies the interactions between climate change and biogeochemical cycles, and focus on the processes that maintain and alter the composition of the atmosphere, and hence the climate. She contributed to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Fung is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of Academia Sinica (Taiwan); a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society; and a recipient of NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union, and a Distinguished Achievement Award for climate system modeling from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Fung was appointed to the National Science Board in 2012.