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Livio's parents accidentally met one day over an argument in a restaurant kitchen.
Both recent arrivals from post-war Europe, their romantic interlude blossomed into a marriage that produced four children, each from a mixed gene pool of equal parts Italian and German. The second of these was (and continues to be) Livio.
Born in Brisbane during the 1967 summer of flower power and still content in bachelorhood, Livio now works permanently for Channel 7 after a productive 14-year career as a meteorologist with the Bureau in Brisbane, Townsville, Melbourne and Canberra.
After completing his physics degree at the University of Queensland, Livio was accepted into the Bureau's postgraduate training program in Melbourne, where he learned the nuts and bolts of meteorology and set out to hone is forecasting skills in a 6-year pilgrimage of Australian weather offices.
In the intervening years, he has taken several other part-time courses, including diplomas in science teaching and journalism, and a Masters degree in scientific communication from the Australian National University.
He sees weather presenting as one of his greatest educational challenges – making a tough scientific subject comprehensible to the whole community in just over two minutes of nightly on-air time.
Livio's great loves are music, nature and travel and he'd much sooner blow his money on a life-changing adventure than waste it on a new car. Memorable moments from his nomadic days include didgeridoo busking in the former Soviet Union, a brief sojourn as a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee and working as a casual adventure tour guide, which he still thoroughly enjoys on week-ends.
During the somewhat lengthier periods of ordinary working life, he prefers staring at the ceiling, hammering on his piano, or sipping peppermint tea to the sound of an enchanting symphony. |
