Dr. Trujillo-Falcón is a Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences, in partnership with the Department of Communication.
He leads the  (ALERTAS) lab, which is dedicated to improving the communication of weather and climate information in multiple languages through public and practitioner engagement. His innovative, interdisciplinary work has driven significant policy changes across the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS), setting a new benchmark for multilingual communication within government agencies. These accomplishments have established him as a national leader in the weather and climate risk communication field.
Before joining the University of Illinois, Dr. Trujillo-Falcón conducted interdisciplinary research for the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, and the NWS Storm Prediction Center. As an award-winning bilingual multimedia meteorologist, he has also worked in both radio and broadcast networks and continues to serve the public through MyRadar, a weather application accessed by 50 million individuals worldwide.
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