Ken Carslaw

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Ken Carslaw
FRS
Born
Kenneth Stewart Carslaw
Alma mater University of Birmingham
University of East Anglia
Scientific career
Fields Aerosol
Climate
Clouds
Modeling [1]
Institutions Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
University of Leeds
Thesis The Properties of Aqueous Stratospheric Aerosols and the Depletion of Ozone  (1994)
Website environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1196/professor-ken-carslaw OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Kenneth Stewart Carslaw FRS , is Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds. [2] [1]

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Education

Carslaw was educated at the University of Birmingham (BSc, 1989) and the University of East Anglia (MSc, 1991; PhD, 1994). [3]

Career and research

He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2001, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2011 and the American Geophysical Union Ascent Award in 2014. He is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Scientist. [4]

He is Co-Chief Editor Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics . [5]

Carslaw was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019, [6] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ken Carslaw publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. Bhanoo, Sindya N. (26 January 2010). "The Ozone Hole Is Mending. Now for the 'But.'". The New York Times . Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. "Prof Ken Carslaw". School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds . Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. "Home". highlycited.com.
  5. "Professor Ken Carslaw". School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  6. Bell, Robin; Holmes, Mary (2019). "2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced". Eos. 100. doi: 10.1029/2019eo131029 . Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  7. "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society". Royal Society . Retrieved 17 May 2024.