Serena Illig

I am an IRD researcher at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS UMR - IRD, CNRS, CNES & Université Paul Sabatier) in Toulouse (France). My research focuses on the phenology of the Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) of the Southern Hemisphere, along the coasts of Angola and Namibia in the northern Benguela Upwelling System, in collaboration with the Department of Oceanography at UCT (Cape Town, South Africa, for more than 15 years). I specialize in linear equatorial dynamics (long waves propagations) and air-sea interactions at regional and basin scales. I am a numerical modeller. I use a methodology based on comparative analysis of observations (in situ and satellite) and a combination of simple (linear) and complex (high resolution regional coupled models) models. I also lecture at Master and Graduate level (Master courses on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and on Ocean Waves (in France, Benin, and Vietnam), Honors course on Statistics (South-Africa)) and I regularly give training courses on regional ocean modeling. As part of my missions at IRD, I was a researcher at the Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE, Peru) from 2010 to 2012 and at the Department of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 2015 to 2019.