Meet the people who make up STEM Faculty.
Climate and environmental change breaks the statistical predictability that underlies insurance against natural disasters, questions the regulation of borrowing and investment between generations, disturbs the ecological systems that support the global population and threatens the stability of nations.
The impacts and feedbacks are dynamic, complex and multi-scale in space and time, they cannot be properly managed without an evolving dialogue that thoroughly explores the interface between environmental and socio-economic change.
My research exploits dynamically simplified Earth system models and complementary approaches to bring the understanding of processes and feedbacks between natural and human systems and sub-systems to the fore.
Through a series of major interdisciplinary consortium projects, including GENIE and ERMITAGE, I have played a leading role in the integration of modelling and observational paleoclimate research and in the integration of detailed Earth system models with complex macroeconomic and energy technology forecasting models for the purposes of environmental policy assessments.
To date (February 2025) I have been instrumental in raising over £20m of funding for Earth-system and integrated assessment modelling research and published over 100 refereed articles in a range of related fields, including 15 in Science, Nature and Cell Press journals (H=47 Google Scholar).
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. (TS Eliot)
Climate Dynamics, Integrated Assessment Modelling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
I have worked on a number of environment-related modules and recently chaired two interdisciplinary third-level modules in presentation, U316 The environmental web and S396 Ecosystems. I also chaired the production of the third-level Terrestrial Ecosystems module S397.
Co-Director (Sustainability), Open Societal Challenges programme
Open University Co-lead (Environment), Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Sciences Landscape Award (ILESLA), PhD training programme
