Piers Forster

Who is Piers Forster?

Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds who has studied the relationship between cosmic rays and climate for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

Forster was educated at Imperial College, London where he gained a BSc in Physics in 1990. He was subsequently awarded a PhD in Meteorology by the University of Reading in 1994. After research posts at the Universities of Reading, Colorado and Melbourne he was appointed a Reader at the University of Leeds in 2005. He has been Professor of Physical Climate Change at Leeds since 2008.