Dr. Stefano Migliorini Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading, RG6 6BB UK e-mail: s.migliorini (at) reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 7843 http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/ Stefano is a Research Fellow in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. He is affiliated to the Data Assimilation Research Centre. His research interests lie in the field of data assimilation for numerical weather prediction, and include the study of efficient methods for assimilating satellite measurements and the use of ensemble filtering methodologies for high-resolution data assimilation.