Dean of the College of Science and President’s Chair in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Head of Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (UK) (2016-2019)
Biography
Simon Redfern is a geoscientist and academic. He is Dean of the College of Science, the President's Chair in Earth Sciences, and Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge, becoming Head of the Department of Earth Sciences in 2016. Since 2019 he has been an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the European Mineralogical Society's Medal for Research Excellence, and is the first person to have been presented with both the Max Hey and the Neumann Medals of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Redfern is a fellow of the Geological Society of London and the Mineralogical Society of America. As a member of the UK ministerially-appointed Committee on Radioactive Waste Management he provided independent scrutiny of the development of UK’s geological radioactive waste repository. He was founding Director of the Cambridge (UK) Centre for Doctoral Training in “Applications of AI to the study of Environmental Risk”, training researchers to develop data-driven approaches to address the critical environmental challenges that our planet is currently facing. Leading projects composed of large and complex multi-disciplinary teams draws him into work in sustainability and climate-related topics, and he now explores the relationships between SDGs, carbon fluxes, and climate impacts and solutions.