Instructor Profile: Djordje Romanic
Djordje Romanic
PhD
Associate Professor
Dept Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill Univ
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Dr. Djordje Romanic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University. He holds dual PhDs in Atmospheric Sciences and Wind Engineering, and his research sits at the intersection of severe weather, boundary-layer meteorology, and wind-structure interaction.
Dr. Romanic leads multiple federally and provincially funded research projects on urban wind hazards, risks to infrastructure, urban sustainability and resilience, and the dynamics of non-synoptic wind events such as downbursts and tornadoes. His work combines field observations, wind tunnel testing, numerical modeling, and forensic case studies to improve engineering design and public safety. For his outstanding contributions to research on severe winds in urban environments, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society awarded Prof. Romanic the 2024 Andrew Thomson Prize in Applied Meteorology.
He is a nationally recognized educator, consistently ranked as the top-rated instructor in his department based on student evaluations. He teaches a variety of courses, including Science of Storms, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Mesoscale Meteorology, Extreme-Weather and Climate-Change Physics, and gives guest lectures in Wind Engineering. He has published widely in both atmospheric science and engineering journals. Dr. Romanic is also an active public science communicator on his YouTube channel and a member of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS).
