Peter Haynes#
| Membership Number: | 1847 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/p.h.haynes |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Professor of Applied Mathematics (2005-2015 Head of Department), DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1999 - 2000 Reader in Atmospheric Science, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1991 - 1999 University Lecturer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1986 - 1990 Royal Society Meteorological Office Research Fellow in Dynamical Meteorology, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 1984 - 1985 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean, University of Washington
Fields of Scholarship
- Large-scale fluid dynamics of atmosphere and ocean
- Wave propagation and breaking
- Dynamics of the global circulation
Honours and Awards
- Maxwell Medal and Prize for Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics (2010)
- Gold Medal, Theory Prize and overall winner of the British Physics Olympiad (1992)
- Silver Medal at the International Physics Olympiad, Helsinki (1992)
