Amanda Murray, Ph.D., is a Canadian-born physicist and science communicator whose work bridges atmospheric physics and public-interest simulation. Raised in Halifax, she earned a B.Sc. in engineering physics from Queen's University (2006) and a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from MIT (2013), studying aerosol microphysics and urban heat islands. She has collaborated with NOAA and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, served as a visiting scientist on cooling systems for particle detectors at CERN, and taught fluid dynamics at the University of Washington. Murray writes regular columns for Nautilus and Scientific American, consults for science museums, and leads an independent research studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on open, reproducible modeling. She lives in Somerville, where she keeps two bicycles, an elderly barometer, and an unreasonable number of field notebooks.
