David Battisti's Former Students: where are they now?
Doctorate
- Nate Mantua (Ph. D. 1994): Landscape Ecology Team Leader, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
- Uma Bhatt (Ph.D. 1995): Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Joe Barsugli (Ph.D. 1995): Research Scientist, CIRES
- Ying-Quei Chen (Ph.D. 1996): Buddist Nun, Oakland CA
- Cecilia Bitz (Ph. D. 1997): Professor, Univ. of Washington
- Tony Beesley (Ph. D. 1997): Scientist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton
- Chris Thompson (Ph. D. 1998): Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst, Expedia
- Zhaowha Wu (Ph. D. 1998): Associate Professor, Florida State University
- Scot Johnson (Ph. D. 1999): Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Daniel Vimont (Ph. D. 2002): Professor, University of Wisconsin
- Jeff Yin (Ph. D. 2002): Scientist, NCAR
- Michela Biasutti (Ph. D. 2003): Research Professor, Lamont
- Ken Takahashi (Ph. D. 2006); Executive President of the Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú - SENAMHI
- Camille Li (Ph. D. 2007); Professor, University of Bergen
- Will Roberts (Ph. D. 2007); Associate Professor, North Umbria University, UK
- Fracesco Pausata (Ph. D. 2010); Professor, L'Université du Québec à Montréal
- Katheryn Dayem (Ph. D. 2010); Technical Specialist, Ercos Consulting
- Robert Nicholas (Ph. D. 2011); Associate Research Professor, Penn State University
- Aaron Donohoe (Ph. D. 2011); Associate Research Professor, Applied Physics Laboratory, UW
- Sandra Penny (Ph.D. 2013): Assistant Professor, Russell Sage Colleges, NY
- Kelly McCusker (Ph.D. 2013): Associate Director, Rhodium Group, Oakland CA
- Alyssa Atwood (Ph.D. 2015): Professor, Florida State University
- Elizabeth Maroon (Ph.D. 2016): Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
- Xioajuan Liu (Ph.D. 2017): Climate Risk Specialist, Seattle
- Joshua Griffin (Ph.D. 2019); Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Lucas Vargas-Zepettello (Ph.D. 2021): Assistant Professor, Univ. of California Berkeley
- Yue Dong (Ph.D. 2021): Assistant Professor, Univ. of California Los Angeles
- Lily Hahn (Ph.D. 2023): NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Scipps
Masters
- David Ovens (M.S. 1993): Research Meteorologist, University of Washington
- Ying-Quei Chen (M.S. 1994): (see above)
- Denise Worthen (M.S. 1994): NASA Goddard, Washington DC
- Roxane Ronca (M.S. 1995): Mathematics Instructor, Western Washington University
- Kevin Werner (M.S. 1999): NOAA
- Dan Vimont (M.S. 2000): (see above)
- Michela Biasutti (M.S. 2000): (see above)
- Craig Brown (M.S. 2003): American Airlines
- Rob Nicholas (M.S., 2007): (see above)
- Kelly McCusker (M.S., 2010): (see above)
- Sandra Penny (M.S., 2012): (see above)
- Hansi Singh (M.S., 2012): Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
- Etienne Tetreault-Pinard (M.S., 2013): Software Engineer, Plotly, Montreal.
- Xiaojuan Liu (M.S. 2014): (see above)
- Lucas Zeppetello (M.S. 2019): (see above)
- Yue Dong (M.S. 2019): (see above)
- Lily Hahn (M.S. 2021): PhD program UW
- Lily Zhang (M.S. 2025): PhD program UW
Postdoctoral Fellows
- John Chiang (2001-2002) Professor, University of California Berkeley
- Ian Eisenman (2009-2011) Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Qinghua Ding (2010-2013) Professor, Univeristy of California Santa Barbara
- Brian Rose (2010-2013) Associate Professor, University of Albany
- Rachel White (2014-2018) Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
- Andy Rhines (2015-2016) Senior Data Scientist, Netflix
- Michelle Tigchelaar (2016-2019) Senior Scientist, World Fish
- Stacy Carolin (2017) Laboratory Manager in Isotope Geochemistry, University of Oxford
- Juan Boisier (2016-2017) Associate Professor, University of Chile
- Cristi Proistosescu (2018-2019) Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
- Brian Green (2018-2020) Research Associate, Stanford University
- Robb Wills (2016-2020) Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich
- David Bonan (2025-present) Research Scientist, University of Washington
Last updated: Dec 2025