Stephan F.J. de Wekker
PROFESSOR
University of Virginia
Department of Environmental Sciences
Charlottesville, VA
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, The University of British Columbia, Canada 1997 - 2002 Dissertation: Structure and morphology of the convective boundary layer in mountainous terrain (Dr. Douw G. Steyn, Advisor)
M.S. Soil, Water, Atmosphere (Cum Laude), Wageningen University, Netherlands 1990 - 1996 Thesis: The estimation of areally-averaged sensible heat fluxes over complex terrain with a large-aperture scintillometer. (Dr. Henk A.R. De Bruin, Advisor)
| EMPLOYMENT HISTORY | |
| Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA | 2018 - Present |
| Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA | 2012 - 2018 |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA | 2006 - 2012 |
| Post-doctoral Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA | 2004 - 2006 |
| Post-doctoral Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA | 2003 - 2004 |
| Post-doctoral Fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland | 2003 |
| Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | 1997 - 2002 |
| Research Assistant, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA | 1996 - 1997 |
| Research Assistant, University of Wageningen, Netherlands | 1995 - 1996 |
| Research Assistant, University of Karlsruhe, Germany | 1994 - 1995 |
| HONORS & AWARDS | |
| NSF-CAREER Award | 2012 - 2017 |
| University of Virginia Teaching Fellow | 2008 - 2009 |
| University of Virginia Professors as Writers Grant | 2007 - 2008 |
| NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) Post-doctoral Fellowship | 2004 - 2006 |
| Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Pre-doctoral Fellowship | 2000 - 2002 |
| University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship | 1998 - 2000 |
| Canadian Airlines International Systems Pass (Travel Award) | 2000 |
| Best Written Student Paper Award (8th AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology) | 1998 |