Professor Liz Ritchie-Tyo

Bio

Liz is the Deputy Director for Research Integration and a Chief Investigator (CI) for 21st Century Weather. She is responsible for overseeing the integration of research across projects to ensure the Centre meets its overarching research goals. In her role as CI, Liz also works closely with other CIs, Research Fellows and PhD students on various research projects relating to Australian region tropical cyclones. More generally, Liz’s tropical cyclone research interests include understanding structure change, environmental interactions, and landfall processes and impacts. Prior to returning to Australia in 2015, Liz spent 20 years in the United States, holding a variety of Faculty and Department-level administrative roles alongside her academic position. She had a long-standing role with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)'s World Weather Research Program (WWRP) Working Group on Tropical Meteorological Research (WGTMR), first as a key member of their International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC) series, and more recently as a member of WGTMR. She has served on NASA’s Earth Science Senior Review three times, including as Chair, was a member of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) President’s Advisory Committee on University Relations (PACUR), and served on the UCAR-UCP University Advisory Board. She served as Councillor of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from 2013-2016 and is a Fellow of the AMS. Fun Fact: Liz has flown through tropical cyclones on research missions, including as Aircraft Mission Scientist, with NASA, the USAF Hurricane Hunters, and the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, in the western North Pacific, North Atlantic and Caribbean.