PEAK-Expert
Ivana Stiperski
Focus
MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY
Kontakt
E-mail:
ivana.stiperski@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 512 507 54454
Web:
Research Group Atmospheric Turbulence
Personal Website
Speaks: English
Ivana Stiperski heads the "Atmospheric Turbulence" research group at the Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. Her work is focused on researching turbulence over mountains. Turbulence plays an important role in weather and climate, storm systems, air pollution and glacial melting, to name a few. The terrain complexity in mountainous regions makes accurate weather forecasts and climate predictions especially challenging, as little is known about the influence of terrain on turbulence. Stiperski has recently revised a theory on atmospheric turbulence that has been valid for 50 years.
Focus-Cloud: Atmosphere, mountains, turbulence, weather in the mountains
About
Ivana Stiperski was born in 1980 in Zagreb, Croatia. She studied Physics/Geophysics with the focus on the physics of atmosphere and ocean, at the University of Zagreb, where she completed her doctorate in 2010. One year later, she moved to the University of Innsbruck and worked in the group of Mathias Rotach on mountainous boundary layers. Stiperski has received numerous international awards and scholarships, including a Hertha Firnberg Fellowship from the FWF and the Mountain Meteorology Outstanding Early Career Award from the American Meteorological Society. In March 2019, she was appointed to an Ingeborg Hochmair Women's Professorship at the Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. Ivana Stiperski received an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2020, one of the most highly endowed scientific awards.