Rate My Professor Katharine Mach

Her research specializes in assessing climate-related risks—such as flooding, extreme heat, and wildfire—and response options, integrating evidence to support effective and equitable adaptations. She engages policymakers, media, private sector, NGOs, and communities on these topics. Mach is a chapter author or lead for the Fourth through Sixth U.S. National Climate Assessments and the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Notable awards include the Piers Sellers Prize (2020) for solution-focused climate research, University of Miami Rosenstiel School Outstanding Mentor Award (2020), and Provost’s Award for Collaborative Teaching (2023). Key publications comprise “Insurance and climate risks: policy lessons from three bounding scenarios” (PNAS, 2024), “A typology of climatopias: visualizations, motivations, and transformations” (Environmental Research: Climate, 2024), and “Do small outdoor geoengineering experiments require governance?” (Science, 2024). She serves as Co-Editor in Chief of Climate Risk Management, editorial board member for Oxford Open Climate Change and Environmental Research: Climate, and member of the National Academies Climate Security Roundtable. In Spring 2025, she was Coleman P. Burke Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yale School of the Environment.