Raffaele Ferrari is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography & Director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate. 

He is a physical oceanographer interested in the circulation of the ocean, its interaction with the atmosphere and climate, using a combination of observations, theory and numerical models to investigate all oceanic motions from scales of centimeters to thousands of kilometers.

Ferrari became interested in oceanography while a physics major at the University of Torino in Italy and pursued a Ph.D. in physical oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (La Jolla, CA). After a short postdoc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA), he arrived at MIT (Cambridge, MA) in 2002, where he investigates the physics of the ocean, atmosphere and climate with the exceptional students and postdocs that come to MIT. 

He is a faculty of the MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science Department, Director of the MIT Program of Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, and a member of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Physical Oceanography and the MIT Climate Modeling Initiative.