Professor Simon Lewis

Academic position:聽聽 Professor of Global Change Science

Department:聽聽果冻影院 Geography

Telephone number:聽聽 +44 (0) 20 7679 0561

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Biography:

Simon Lewis is Professor of Global Change Science. Simon is a plant ecologist by training, with interests in how humans are changing the Earth system, with a focus on the tropics. He is one of the world鈥檚 most highly cited scientists. He wrote, with Professor Mark Maslin, the paper 鈥淒efining the Anthropocene鈥� in Nature in 2015 changing the debate on the formal definition of the Anthropocene. More recently he wrote the book The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene (2018, Penguin), exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene. The book was an Observer book of the year, and described as having 鈥渢he force of a Greek tragedy鈥� by the Wall Street Journal. 聽

Research Projects:

Maslin, M. A. & Lewis, S. L. (2020). Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the 鈥榞reat dying鈥� of the 16th century. .
Lewis, S. L. & Maslin, M. A. (2018) . Penguin Books.聽
Lewis, S. L. & Maslin, M. A. (2015a) . Nature, 519, 171-180.
Lewis, S. L. & Maslin, M. A. (2015b) . Science, 349, 246-247.
Lewis, S. L. & Maslin, M. A. (2015c) . The Anthropocene Review, 2, 128鈥�146.
Maslin, M. A. & Lewis, S. L. (2015a) The Anthropocene Review, 2, 108-116.

Teaching:

NERC Doctoral Training Program, 鈥淭he Anthropocene.鈥� Lectures.聽