Atmospheric and Climate Science alum and University of Wisconsin–Madison Associate Professor Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “genius grant. Adames Corraliza got his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from UW in 2016 and completed a master’s before that.

According to the MacArthur Foundation, Adames Corraliza “has made significant advances in quantifying the role and impact of moisture in tropical weather and climate phenomena, bringing us closer to a comprehensive dynamical theory of the tropical atmosphere.”

Read more about Adames Corraliza’s research on NPR, CoENV News, UW Madison News, and the MacArthur Foundation.