Julienne C. Stroeve received a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder, in 1996, for her work in understanding Greenland climate variability.  Afterwards she became a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU-Boulder. In 2016 she moved to University College London and led the Centre for Polar Obsevation and Modelling, and in 2018 was awarded a Canada 150 Excellence Research Chair at the University of Manitoba. In 2023, she was awarded the Helmholtz Fellowship at University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Her Arctic research interests include remote sensing of snow and ice, sea ice forecasting at various time-scales, climate change and impacts of sea ice loss on marine ecosystems and native communities.

She has participated in several field campaigns in Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, including the year-long German-led MOSAiC expedition in 2019/2020. She is also science advisor for Arctic Basecamp, a non-profit that brings the urgency of Arctic change to policy makers and industry leaders at the World Economic Forum each year.

Dr. Stroeve’s work has been featured in numerous magazines and news reports, radio talk shows, and TV documentaries. She has given keynote addresses around the world on Arctic climate issues and briefed former Vice President Al Gore and Congressional Staff. Dr. Stroeve has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several national and international reports on climate change. Stroeve has been named by Clarivate Analytics as one of the most highly cited researchers several years in a row.