Ismaila Diallo is an assistant professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science and a member of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC). His research focuses on understanding the interaction between the atmosphere and the earth’s surface, large-scale atmospheric dynamics, drivers for long-term changes in climate, processes by which climate change could impact wildfires and water resources, climate modeling, extreme events, and sub-seasonal-to-seasonal predictions. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Dakar, Senegal.