Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

CITIDEP Vice-President; CITIDEP Science Council, USA Chapter

Since obtaining a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1988, with a dissertation topic on observations and modeling of the deep equatorial Pacific circulation, Rui Ponte has been involved in a variety of oceanic and atmospheric studies involving modeling and data analysis, and focusing on problems related to sea level variability, the ocean circulation, and the variable Earth rotation and gravity field. He is currently a staff scientist at Atmospheric Environmental Research, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, since 1989, and an active member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and The Oceanography Society.