Degrees

2000 PhD in Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1999 PhD in Fluid Dynamics, Politecnico di Torino

1994 MS and BS in Physics, Universita’ di Torino


Employment

2009-present Full Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2006-2009 Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2002-2006 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2000-2002 Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1995-2000 Graduate Research Assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1994-1999 Visiting Scholar, Politecnico di Torino


Honors

Moore Scholar, Caltech 2013

Breene M. Kerr Chair, MIT 2011-present

Cecil and Ida Green Chair, MIT, 2007-2011

Nicholas P. Fofonoff Award, American Meteorological Society, 2007

Killian and Lee Scholar Award, MIT, 2004

Victor P. Starr Career Development Chair, MIT, 2003-2006

Woods Hole Postdoctoral Scholarship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2000-2002

Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1999

Fulbright Fellowship, U.S. Department of State, 1995


Undergraduate Students Supervised

Solomon Hsiang, Valerie Wong, Amitra Masurkar, Erin Munsell, Elizabeth Maroon, Todd Mooring


PhD Students Supervised

  1. •Maxim Nikurashin 2002-2008, PhD Thesis: “Radiation and Generation of InternalWaves Generated by Geostrophic Motions Impinging on Small-scale Topography", now postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton

  2. •Jessica Benthuysen 2004-2006, Master Thesis: “Heat and Mass Transport in Horizontal Convection", now postdoctoral researcher at CSIRO, Tasmania

  3. •Malte Jansen, 2007-2012, PhD Thesis, “Equilibration of an atmosphere by geostrophic turbulence”

  4. •Sophia Merrifeld 2010-2012

  5. •Jörn Callies, 2011-present

  6. •Marianna Linz, 2012-present


Postdoctoral Researchers Supervised

  1. •Giulio Boccaletti 2003-2005, now expert engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, London, UK

  2. •Ivana Cerovecki 2004-2005, now project scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla

  3. •Baylor Fox-Kemper 2004-2007, now assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder

  4. •Yu Zhang 2009-present, now postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton

  5. •John Taylor 2008-2011, now lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  6. •Andreas Klocker 2009-2011, now researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  7. •Malte Jansen 2013, now NOAA postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton