Daniel Varon (he/him)

Boeing Assistant Professor (effective July 2025), Aeronautics and Astronautics

Daniel will join the IDSS faculty in July 2025.

Daniel Varon is an atmospheric scientist interested in greenhouse gases, air pollution, and satellite remote sensing. His work revolves around using satellite observations of atmospheric composition to better understand human impacts on the environment and identify opportunities to reduce them. A major focus has been on quantifying atmospheric methane emissions and trends across a range of scales. More recently, he’s started investigating new ways of observing nitrogen oxide air pollution from space. He received a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University in 2020 along with an MSc in applied mathematics. He continued as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and held a visiting postdoctoral fellowship at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs from 2021 to 2023.