Brian Hoskins

Sir Brian John Hoskins, CBE ( born May 17, 1945 in Bristol ) is a British mathematician, meteorologist and climatologist. He is a professor of meteorology at the University of Reading since 2008 and Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.

Life

Hoskins grew up in Bristol, the son of a fruit and vegetable store owner.

He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge with John Kingman and his PhD on mathematical models of warm and cold fronts. He then spent a year at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (Colorado). In 1973 he returned to Britain and worked in a working group to atmosphere modeling under the direction of Robert Pearce. In 1972 he worked at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ( GFDL ) at Princeton University in 1973 and returned back to Reading to take over the leadership of the working group atmosphere modeling. Since then he has worked at the Institute of Meteorology, Reading University, has there since 1981 a professor of meteorology and was from 1990 to 1996 director of the Institute for meteorology. In 1996 he was Visiting Professor at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, from 2000 to 2010 he was professor of the Royal Society held. Since 2008, he has, in addition to his professorship at Reading University, founding director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.

Since the 1980s he focused on climate change and was involved among other things, on the fourth assessment report of the IPCC and the Stern Review. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution demanded a 60 % reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050, and was appointed as one of five experts in the Committee on Climate Change, which advises the British government on climate change issues.

Awards

Hoskins is since 1988 a member of the Royal Society, in 1998 was awarded the Commander of the British Empire ( CBE) for his contributions to meteorology and was raised in 2007 for his contributions to the environmental sciences to knighthood. Since 2002 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol (2008) and the University of East Anglia ( 2009).