Dr. Julie Pullen serves on the board of Ocean Visions and the science advisory boards of Carbon to Sea and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). She advises the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and Buoyant Ventures, a woman-led VC fund.

Previously, as an associate professor in engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Pullen conducted field and modeling studies of tropical air-sea processes in the South Pacific. She was concurrently appointed to Brookhaven National Lab where she studied marine aerosol-cloud interactions in the North Atlantic, and was an adjunct research scientist at Columbia’s Earth Institute.

Dr. Pullen later brought that scientific foundation into industry — first at Jupiter Intelligence, a climate risk analytics startup using AI and cloud computing to predict street-level perils, and then as founding Partner and Chief Scientist at Propeller, a venture capital fund for ocean climate tech.

She was elected to the leadership councils of both The Oceanography Society and the American Meteorological Society, and has served on multiple National Academy of Sciences committees, including the Congressionally-mandated Climate Security Roundtable.

She has taught graduate courses in dynamic meteorology, fluid dynamics, oceanography, nuclear security, and tropical meteorology — the latter as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of the Philippines. She holds a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in applied mathematics, with a specialty in nonlinear dynamics.