Ashraf Receives Bakhmeteff Fellowship

Afra Ashraf is a second year PhD student researching how to use climate models to best make decisions under uncertainty. She is working on building a framework to quantify the “value of information” from climate models beginning with the Lorenz system as a simplified model of chaos that captures key features of the climate’s unpredictability. Before graduate school, she studied physics at Barnard College, researching atmospheric variability in brown dwarfs and hot exoplanets. In her free time, she enjoys playing chess and baking.