Dr Neil Robert Edwards

Biography

"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 I have been instrumental in raising over £20m of funding for Earth-system and integrated assessment modelling research and published 70 refereed articles in a range of related fields (H=27 Google Scholar January 2017). 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)"

Research Interest

Climate Dynamics, Integrated Assessment Modelling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.