Alicia Hou is a Senior Climate Scientist in the Climate Policy Team at Climate Analytics. Drawing on over six years of research experience in earth system science, she works on temperature projections using MAGICC7, FaIR, and related emulators, contributing to the development of an in-house climate emulator framework that informs both methodological research and policy-relevant outputs. Her work spans comparative emulator assessment, attribution science, long-term climate assessments, and contributions to the Global Methane Hub and Superpollutants (SPAA) initiatives.
Alicia holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and an MSc from the University of Toronto. Her research background is in paleoclimate — spanning deep-time monsoon dynamics, glacial-interglacial climate variability, paleoclimate modelling, and proxy-model comparison — and she brings to Climate Analytics a strong foundation in the physical climate system alongside advanced skills in probabilistic ensemble analysis, uncertainty quantification, and large-scale data pipeline development. This combination of process-level climate understanding and rigorous quantitative methods now informs her focus on emissions scenario assessment and mitigation pathway evaluation. She has published in leading journals including Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, and Geophysical Research Letters.