Biography, Affiliations, Research Committee Membership & Peer Review
Biography
- 2007 : Reader in Environmental Change, UCL
- 2000 - 2007: Lecturer in Environmental Change, UCL
- 1999 - 2000: Senior Research Fellow, (50%), ECRC Administrator (50%), UCL
- 1995 - 1999: Research Fellow (50%), ECRC Administrator (50%), UCL
- 1992 - 1995: Research Fellow (funded by The Leverhulme Trust), UCL
- 1989 - 1992: NERC PhD Student, University of Manchester
Recent vegetational history of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, UK. (1993) - 1984 - 1989: B.Sc. Hons. Biological Sciences (Botany), University of Edinburgh
Membership of professional bodies
- Royal Geographical Society No. 455488
- European Geophysical Union
- American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
- British Ecological Society No. 69850
- Quaternary Research Association
- International Diatom Society
- International Society for Salt Lakes
- The International Biogeography Society No. 11722069
Affiliations within The Royal Society
- Royal Society Environmental Advisory Network (RS-EAN) (2000 - present)
- Royal Society BICER Management Committee: UK Research Coordinator (1999 - 2004)
- Royal Society's International Exchanges Panel I(b): Former Soviet Union (1 Jan 2002; retirement date: 31 st December, 2004)
- Baikal International Centre for Ecological Research (BICER): International Secretary (1998 - 2002)
- Royal Society Working Group: Future of SSSIs (2000 - 2001)
Peer review of grants: National
Peer review of grants: International
- German Research Foundation (DFG), Priority programme: Integrated analysis of interglacial climate dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC) (2007-2013)
- ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation (USA)
- Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)
- Evaluator for EU INTAS Research Projects, Young Scientist & Innovation rounds 2003-2006
- Panel member for assessing environmental science applications for the Research Council for Bioscience and Environment (RCBE) of the Academy of Finland (2003)
- Expert for Research Council for Bioscience and Environment (RCBE) of the Academy of Finland (2003 - 2005)
Peer review for academic journals
- Earth-Science Reviews
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Global and Planetary Change
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
- International Journal of Earth Science
- Journal of Geophysical Research
- Journal of Marine Systems
- Journal of Paleolimnology
- Limnology & Oceanography
- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
- Quaternary International
- Quaternary Research
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Radiocarbon
- Surveys in Geophysics
- The Holocene

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