Professor David Stephenson, joint Met Office Chair in the Statistical Analysis of Weather and Climate, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences.

Key people in climate change and sustainable futures research

The complex range of issues involved in trying to predict and understand the potential impacts of climate change, seek ways to mitigate them, and communicate this understanding effectively to inform policy and adapt human behaviour, presents a particular challenge to researchers in the field. We have brought together world-class experts from a range of research groups across our disciplines to help understand what is happening and what we need to do about it.

Their individual research expertise covers climate modelling, risk management for business, lessons from past climate change, extreme weather events, ecotoxicology, energy production and conservation, global food production and distribution, sustainable development and environmental threats to the health and wellbeing of humans and wildlife. Together they are generating new research that combines physical, mathematical, environmental, economic and social aspects of climate change and sustainable futures.

Life Sciences

Name	Expertise
Prof Mike Depledge	Medical School, Environment and Human Health
Dr Tim Kurz	Psychology, Public Responses to Climate Change
Dr Thomas Morton	Psychology, Social Identity
Prof Charles Tyler	Biology, Environmental Biology
Dr Frank van Veen	Biology, Climate Change Biology

Physical geography

Name	Expertise
Dr Luiz Aragao	Geography, Earth System Science
Dr Tim Barrows	Geography, Quaternary geology and geomorphology
Prof Dan Charman	Geography, Responses of Ecosystems to Climate Change
Dr Iain Hartley	Geography, Carbon Cycle
Dr Anne le Brocq	Geography, Ice Sheet Modelling
Prof Tim Lenton	Geography, Earth System Science
Prof Tim Quine	Geography, Earth System Science
Prof Chris Perry	Geography, Earth System Science
Dr Clive Sabel	Geography, Geography of Health
Dr Stephen Sitch	Geography, Earth System Science
Dr Hywell Williams	Geography, Earth System Modelling

Mathematics and physical sciences

Name	Expertise
Dr Mat Collins	Mathematics, Climate Systems
Prof Peter Cox (Theme leader)	Mathematics, Climate Systems
Prof Pierre Friedlingstein	Mathematics, Climate Systems
Prof Jim Haywood	Joint Met Office Prof, Atmospheric Science
Dr Tristan Kershaw	Physics, Climate Change and the Built Environment
Dr Hugo Lambert	Mathematics, Processes that Control Large Scale Climate Change
Prof George Smith	Engineering, Renewable Energy
Prof David Stephenson	Met Office Chair, Statistical Analysis of Weather and Climate
Prof John Thuburn	Met Office Chair, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Social sciences

Name	Expertise
Dr Stewart Barr	Geography, Geographies of Sustainable Development
Prof Patrick Devine-Wright	Geography, Public Engagement with Environmental Technologies
Prof Michael Finus	Business, Economics of Climate Change
Dr Keith Hyams	Politics, Ethics of Climate Change
Prof Steve McCorriston	Business, Economics
Dr Duncan Russel	Politics, Politics of Climate Change