Michael Montgomery is a Distinguished Professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School. His meteorological research and teaching interests span dynamic meteorology, synoptic meteorology, geophysical fluid dynamics, geophysical turbulence, theoretical, experimental, and computational fluid dynamics, and applied mathematics. His current work is conducting new research on the birth of hurricanes/typhoons, intensification, and secondary eyewall formation, as well as other geophysical fluid dynamical problems associated with vortical systems.