About Jake W. Casselman — Climate Scientist, Founder, Writer

Jake Casselman — climate scientist, founder, and writer based in Honolulu. Ph.D. ETH Zurich; postdoc at UH Mānoa; co-founder & CEO of ClimaLinks AG. The research, the company, and the essays are the same question asked three different ways.

I'm Jake Casselman — a climate scientist, founder, and writer based in Honolulu. The research, the company, and the essays are the same question asked three different ways.

My PhD is from ETH Zürich, where I spent seven years working on how large-scale climate signals reach places they statistically shouldn't — atmospheric dynamics, seasonal predictability, and the physical systems that make climate variability economically consequential.

As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, I work with Christina Karamperidou on ENSO teleconnections and climate information for society. Two papers are in production — one accepted at Nature Communications, one under review at Nature Climate Change.

I'm also the co-founder and CEO of ClimaLinks AG, a climate-intelligence company in Zürich. We turn climate and weather data into something operational: Nikko Weather for consumers, ClimaWeave as geospatial infrastructure for business.

And I write. A Renaissance of Thought is a weekly essay series on AI, consciousness, scientific identity, and how ideas propagate through society. The same instinct connects all three: finding the hidden structure underneath things that look like noise, and turning it into something that holds.

I grew up in Morrisburg, Ontario; my family has been in eastern Ontario since 1784. Plain-spoken, first-principles, not easily impressed by credentials — the PhD from ETH sits on top of that, not the other way around.