Research Fellows
The Smith School Research Fellows:
Dr Mick Blowfield
Senior Research Fellow, head of the Private Sector Transformation centre, specialising in corporate social and environmental responsibility, particularly the role of business in society. He has lived and worked in 20 countries, written papers for the UK government, the European Commission, the UN and the World Bank, and has worked on several projects analysing corporate responsibility in developing countries. He is currently focusing on the role of business in helping address climate change.
Dr Oliver Inderwildi
Research Fellow and head of the Smith School’s Low Carbon Mobility centre. He is an expert in vehicle emissions and the synthesis of low-carbon fuels. He is researching biofuels and other alternative transport fuels, and ways of cutting emissions from aviation.
Dr Patrick McSharry
Research Fellow and head of the Catastrophe Risk Financing centre. A mathematician and expert in forecasting and time series analysis – the assessment of data collected from a series of measurements taken over time, leads the Catastrophe Risk Financing centre. He is currently studying the modelling of natural catastrophes and the links between finance and insurance that could provide protection from extreme changes to the environment and the weather.
Professor Bernard Silverman
Senior Research Fellow and former member of Management Team he is currently, taking leave from the Smith School to be Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, where he leads the Home Office Science group and provides independent scientific advice to Home Office ministers and policy officials on the whole range of Home Office business. He is a statistician with particular interests in the analysis of complex data sets and structures, and also in the place of science in public policy.
Dr Robert Metcalfe
Fitzjames Research Fellow in Economics, Merton College, Oxford and Research Fellow in our Environmental Economics centre. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, behavioural economics, environmental economics and public economics.
Dr Jooyoung Jeon
Junior Research Fellow sponsored by Her Majesty’s Government, working with Dr Patrick McSharry in the Catastrophe Risk Financing centre.
Dr Juan Antonio Añel Cabanelas
Research Fellow, scientific coordinator of Climateprediction.net and co-leader of the SPARC Tropopause Initiative. Ph.D. in Physics, Gulbenkian Young Researcher Prize in Geosciences 2008, outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award by the University of Vigo in 2008 and profiled by Science in 2009.
A summary of the Fellows’ current research activities can be found here.
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