Brian Hoskins

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

Life

Hoskins grew up in Bristol as the son of a fruit and vegetable merchant.

He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge with John Kingman and did his PhD on mathematical models of warm and cold fronts . In the third year of his doctoral studies, he went to Johns Hopkins University (USA) with his doctoral supervisor Francis Bretherton . He then spent a year at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (Colorado) . In 1973 he returned to the UK and worked in an atmosphere modeling group led by Robert Pearce. In 1972 he worked at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) at Princeton University and returned to Reading in 1973 to take over the leadership of the atmospheric modeling group. Since then he has worked at the Institute for Meteorology at Reading University, where he has held a professorship for meteorology since 1981 and was director of the Institute for Meteorology from 1990 to 1996. In 1996 he was Visiting Professor at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge , and from 2000 to 2010 he was a professor at the Royal Society . Since 2008, in addition to his professorship at Reading University, he has been founding director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.

He has been working on climate change since the 1980s and was involved in the IPCC's fourth assessment report and the Stern Report , among other things . He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution , which called for a 60% reduction in CO ₂ emissions by 2050, and was appointed as one of five experts on the Committee on Climate Change , which the UK government has on climate change advises.

Awards

Hoskins has been a member of the Royal Society since 1988 , was named Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1998 for his contributions to meteorology, and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 2007 for his contributions to environmental science . Since 2002 he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He received honorary doctorates from the University of Bristol (2008) and the University of East Anglia (2009). In 2014 he received the Buys Ballot Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , which is only awarded every ten years. In 1990 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Web links

• Sir Brian Hoskins at Imperial College London
• Sir Brian Hoskins at the University of Reading (extensive reading list)
• The Future for the Environment on Planet Earth. Lecture on July 10, 2009, Cambridge University. Retrieved December 21, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ministry of Earth Science, India: Lecture by Prof. Sir Brian Hoskins ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
2. ^ ^{A b c} Paul Valdes: Address on the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol to Brian Hoskins (English), July 17, 2008. Accessed December 21, 2013.
3. ^ Brian Hoskins - Honors and Memberships ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Imperial College London. Retrieved December 21, 2013.  
4. ^ "Buys Ballot Medal awarded to meteorologist Sir Brian Hoskins" ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences of April 23, 2014 (English)
5. ^ Membership directory: Brian Hoskins. Academia Europaea, accessed December 11, 2017 .