Born: February 9, 1939 in Poland
Citizenship: Canadian

DEGREES
Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas, University of Buenos Aires, 1963
M.Sc. in Meteorology, McGill University, 1968
Ph.D. in Meteorology, McGill University, 1972

PRESENT POSITION
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University.

PREVIOUS RESPONSIBILITIES
- Director of graduate studies program in Atmospheric Sciences at UQAM, 1971-1982
- Chairman of the department of Physics at UQAM, 1988-1992
- Director of the Cooperative Center for Research in Mesometeorology (McGill-UQAM-AES)
- Director of the J. Stewart Marshall Observatory, McGill University, 1992-2010
- Lead Scientist for the Canadian Weather Research Program, Environment Canada

AWARDS
1991 The Patterson Distinguished Service Medal (for outstanding contribution to meteorology in Canada from AES, the Atmospheric Environment Service)
1998 President’s Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society
2001 Fellow of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society
2004 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2007 Remote Sensing Prize of the American Meteorological Society
2007 Member of the Academy of Sciences of Canada
2013 Award for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation, “Dr. Luis Federico Leloir”, Government of Argentina

LATEST 6 JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Total: 111)
Atencia, A. and I Zawadzki, 2015: A comparison of Two Techniques for Generating Nowcasting Ensembles. Part II: Analogs selection and comparison of techniques. Monthly Weather Review. 143, In Print.
Jacques, D. and I. Zawadzki, 2015: The impacts of representing the correlation of errors in radar data assimilation: Part II: model output as background estimates. Monthly Weather Review, 142, 3998-4016.
Surcel, M , I. Zawadzki and M. K. Yau, 2015: A study on the scale-dependence of the predictability of precipitation patterns, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 216-235.
Jacques, D. and I. Zawadzki, 2014: The impacts of representing the correlation of errors in radar data assimilation: Part I: experiments with simulated background and observation estimates. Monthly Weather Review, 142, 3998-4016.
Atencia, A. and I Zawadzki, 2014: A comparison of Two Techniques for Generating Nowcasting Ensembles. Part I: Lagrangian Ensemble Technique. Monthly Weather Review. 142, 4036-4052.
Surcel, M , I. Zawadzki and M. K. Yau, 2014: On the Filtering Properties of Ensemble Averaging for Storm-Scale Precipitation Forecasts, Monthly Weather Review, 142, 1093-1105.