Christopher G. Rapley#
| Membership Number: | 2811 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences/people/academic/prof-chris-rapley |
| Twitter: | chrisrapley3131 |
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
Fields of Scholarship
- Polar science
- Science communication
- Climate science
- Science-policy interface
Honours and Awards
- 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'
