Mark Maslin

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• UCL Professor of Earth System Science and UNU Lead for Climate, Health and Security, UCL

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Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor of Earth System Science at University College London and the Climate, Health and Security Lead for the United Nations University. He is the joint Pro-Vice Provost of the UCL Climate Crisis Grand Challenge, the Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Sustainable Aviation and UNFCCC designated lead for UCL. He was a co-founder of the leading AI geospatial analytics company Rezatec Ltd and a Royal Society Industrial Fellow. Maslin is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past and future global and regional climatic change and has publish over 215 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Climate Change, The Lancet and Geology. He has been awarded research council, charity and Government research and postgraduate training grants of over £85 million.

Professor Maslin has presented over 50 public talks over the last three years for example: Twitter (EU/Asia), New Scientist Live, Guardian 'Master Classes', Google (UK), Global Leaders Forum (South Korea), RGS, Royal Society, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hay literature festival, Harvard, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge Universities etc. He has supervised 15 Research fellows, 20 PhD students and over 60 MSc students. He has also have written 10 popular books, over 100 popular articles (e.g., The Conversation, New Scientist, Geographical magazine, The Times, Independent and Guardian), appeared on radio and television (including Timeteam, Newsnight, Dispatches, Horizon, The Today Programme, Briefing Room, BBC News, Channel 5 News, and Sky News). He was also one of the key presenters of Sir David Attenborough's BBC One 'Climate Change: The Facts'. His books include the high successful 'Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction' (OUP, 2021), 'The Cradle of Humanity' (OUP, 2019), 'The Human Planet: How we created the Anthropocene' co-authored with Simon Lewis (Penguin, 2018) and 'How to save our planet: the facts' (Penguin, 2021). Maslin was also a co-author of the 2009 Lancet report 'Managing the health effects of climate change' and a contributor the annual Lancet Commission on climate change and global health. Prof. Maslin was included in Who's Who for the first time in 2009 and was granted a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for the study of early human evolution in East Africa in 2011.

Experience

• –present Professor of Climatology, University College London

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

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