At ICES he is the fellow of the W. A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr., endowed chair III in Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences. Previously, he worked for 16 years in the physical oceanography group at MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), most recently as Senior Research Scientist and Visiting Associate Professor. He earned his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology and the University of Hamburg, Germany, working with Prof. Klaus Hasselmann on global ocean surface wave remote sensing and modeling.