Myles Allen
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Myles Allen | |
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| Born | Myles Robert Allen 11 August 1965[1] |
| Education | British School in the Netherlands[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
| Known for | Climateprediction.net |
| Spouse | [1] |
| Awards | Edward Appleton Medal and Prize (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Climate change |
| Institutions | United Nations Environment Programme Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Interactions between the atmosphere and oceans on time scales of weeks to years (1992) |
| Website | www |
Myles Robert Allen CBE FRS FInstP (born 11 August 1965)[1] is an English climate scientist. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and head of the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.[2][3]
Allen was educated at the British School in the Netherlands[1] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in physics and philosophy in 1987[1] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.[4] He was a student of St. John's College, Oxford.[1]
Career
As well as his position as Professor of Geosystem science at Oxford, he is the Principal Investigator of the distributed computing project Climateprediction.net (which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public), and was principally responsible for starting this project.[5][6] He is the Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative[7] and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.[8]
Allen has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He contributed to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead Author of the Chapter on detection of change and attribution of causes,[9] and was a Review Editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a co-author of the IPCC October 8, 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C.[10][11] His research[12] focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the future.[13][14][15][16][17]
Allen also provided the technical expertise for the game Fate of the World, which is "a PC strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years".[18] In 2015, he mentioned that carbon capture and storage (CCS) should be made mandatory.[19]