Senior Lecturer Lodovica Illari is to receive an Education and Advising Award from the School of Science in recognition of her "outstanding dedication to PAOC's educational program and her role as student advisor and mentor". Illari, who according to long-time colleague Kerry Emanuel, "is something of a jewel in PAOC's crown", brings her enthusiasm, patience and abundant atmospheric-science know-how to all the classes she teaches. Beyond the synoptic lab she also co-ordinates the perennially popular DEAPS Extreme Weather and Climate Freshman Pre-Orientation Program each year. Definitely one of our weather-nuts, Illari leads the Weather and Climate Club, coaching our in-house forecast team as well as mentoring forecasters for the Tech. For the past several years she has become increasingly involved with the Weather in a Tank project, taking rotating fluids "on-the-road" for public outreach to schools, museums and beyond.
Congratulations, Dr. Illari, on a well deserved award.
Senior Lecturer Lodovica Illari is to receive an Education and Advising Award from the School of Science in recognition of her "outstanding dedication to PAOC's educational program and her role as student advisor and mentor". Illari, who according to long-time colleague Kerry Emanuel, "is something of a jewel in PAOC's crown", brings her enthusiasm, patience and abundant atmospheric-science know-how to all the classes she teaches. Beyond the synoptic lab she also co-ordinates the perennially popular DEAPS Extreme Weather and Climate FROSH program each year. Definitely one of our weather-nuts, Illari leads the Weather and Climate Club, coaching our in-house forecast team as well as mentoring forecasters for the Tech. For the past several years she has become increasingly involved with the Weather in a Tank project, taking rotating fluids "on-the-road" for public outreach to schools, museums and beyond.
Born in Milan, Lodovica spent her childhood in Cremona (her family has a farm in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, near Piacenza in the Po valley). After recieving a PhD. from Imperial College in London, she worked as a scientist at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting in the UK building atmospheric data assimilation systems. She joined MIT in 1993.
Congratulations on an award well earned, Dr. Illari.