PRENTICE, Iain Colin

　　Title: Professor

　　Address: Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK

　　Tel: +44 207 594 2354

　　Email: c.prentice@imperial.ac.uk

　　Education Background:

　　1977  Ph.D., Department of Botany, University of Cambridge

　　1973  B.A., Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

　　Working Experiences:

　　2013–present   AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Imperial College London, UK

　　2010–2013      Professor of Biosphere-Climate Interactions, Imperial College London, UK

　　2009–2016      Professor in Ecology and Evolution, Macquarie University, Australia

　　2003–2010      Professor of Earth System Science, University of Bristol, UK

　　2003–2010      National research programme leader, Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System, Natural Environment Research Council, UK

　　1997–2003      Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

　　1991–1998      Professor of Plant Ecology, Lund University, Sweden

　　1988–1991      Associate Research Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

　　1983–1988      Assistant Research Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

　　1982–1983      Guest Scientist, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

　　1980–1982      Hartley Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK

　　1978–1980      Sir James Knott Research Fellow, Universirt of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

　　Research Interests:

　　Biosphere dynamics, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global ecosystem modelling, primary production modelling and monitoring, biogeography, global carbon and water cycles, CO₂ effects on plants and ecosystems, climate impacts on natural and managed ecosystems

　　Professional Activities:

　　High-End Foreign Expert, College of Forestry, Northwest A & F University, Yangling

　　Director of the Imperial College Masters course in Ecosystems and Environmental Change

　　Peer review for numerous scientific journals and funding agencies

　　Lead for The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, IPCC TAR

　　Former co-chair of IGBP project Analysis and Modelling of the Earth System and founding member of the Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling task force