Danilo Diedrichs is a Renaissance man. Although now a professor and the department chair of mathematics at Wheaton, his areas of expertise span further than the classroom.
He has a private pilot’s license, figure skates, plays the piano and has even discovered a newfound passion for plant identification through his membership at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill.
Aviation and skating have been his passions since his childhood in Geneva, Switzerland. As a boy, he loved to go to the airport and watch the precise sequencing of planes taking off and landing. When he was seven years old, he did a presentation on planes for a school project…