About Me

I am a PhD candidate in the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), housed within NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

I am interested in ocean dynamics and the ocean’s role in climate, and seek to build physical understanding through theory and computational modelling of varying complexity. I am particularly motivated by how ocean processes can be better represented in global climate models.

Publications

4. Pudig, M. P., Zhang, W., Smith, K. S., & Zanna, L. (2026). Parameterizing isopycnal mixing via kinetic energy backscatter in an eddy-permitting ocean model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 18, e2025MS005497
5. Zanna, L., Gregory, W., Perezogin, P., Sane, A., Zhang, C., Adcroft, A., Bushuk, M., Fernandez-Granda, C., Reichl, B., Balwada, D., Busecke, J., Chapman, W., Connolly, A., Du, D., Everard, K., Falasca, F., Falga, R., Kamm, D., Meunier, E., Liu, Q., Nasser, A., Pudig, M., Shao, A., Simpson, J.L., Vogt, L., Wu, J. (2025). A framework for hybrid physics-AI coupled ocean models. arXiv
6. Pudig, M. P., & Smith, K. S. (2025). Baroclinic turbulence above rough topography: The vortex gas and topographic turbulence regimes. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55(5), 611-630
7. Pudig, M. P., Yung, C. K., Zika, J. D., & Holmes, R. M. (2023). Rectified ocean heat uptake from oscillatory surface forcing. Journal of Climate, 36(8), 2663-2680

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Atmosphere Ocean Science and Mathematics; New York University (2022-present)
• Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours), Mathematics and Physics, Hons. Class 1 in Applied Mathematics; University of New South Wales (2017-2021)