About me

As a British Academy Global Professor at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, I specialize in exploring the intersections of climate, energy, and food systems. Our work has been scientific journals and media outlets such as the BBC, The Guardian, Thomson Reuters, Politico, Nature Sustainability, Nature Energy, PNAS, Joule, Nature Food, and Nature Communications. I am an editor and author of the interdisciplinary textbook Food and Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2020). My popular science book, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science (Indigo Press, 2021) describes humanity’s current trajectory and possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope. Me and my team were the winners of the inaugural International Champion at the Frontiers Planet Prize in 2023.