Christopher G. Rapley#

Present and Previous Positions

• Professor of Climate Science at University College London (UCL)
• 2019 - Chair European Science Foundation's European Space Sciences Committee
• 2014 - 2016 Chair of European Space Agency (ESA), Director General's High Level Science Policy Advisory Committee
• 2007 - 2010 Director of the Science Museum
• 1998 - 2007 Director of the British Antarctic Survey
• 1999 Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
• 1991 - 1997 Professor of Remote Sensing Science at University College London from 1991 to 1997 (1994 - 1997 Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Bisophere Programme, heading up the Secretariat hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm)
• 1981 - 1987 Lecturer at the Department of Space and Climate Physics of University College London
• 1975 - 1981 Scientist on NASA's Solar Maximum Mission

• Polar science
• Science communication
• Climate science
• Science-policy interface

• Honorary DSc’s from the University of Bristol and the University of East Anglia
• Honorary Professorships from Imperial College London and the University of East Anglia
• 2003 Appointed CBE by Her Majesty the Queen
• 2008 Awarded the Edinburgh Science Medal for having made 'a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity'

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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