Brian Hoskins#
| Membership Number: | 833 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/b.hoskins |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at Reading University
- 2008-2014 Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
- 2000-2010 Royal Society Research Professorship
Fields of Scholarship
- Weather and climate
- Understanding of atmospheric motion from frontal to planetary scales
Honours and Awards
- Knighthood (2007)
- Symons Gold Medal (2006) of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2002)
- Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1998)
- Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998)
- EGS Vilhelm Bjerknes Medallist (1997)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1988)
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (1988) from the American Meteorological Society
- The Chree Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (1987)
- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (1985)
- L.F. Richardson Prize (1972) and Buchan Prize (1976) from the Royal Meteorological Society
- President, Royal Meteorological Society 1998-2000
- Member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
- Member of the Academia Europaea
