B.Sc., (Physics), University of Bristol, 1995

D.Phil., (Physics), University of Oxford, 1998

Professor (full and tenured), University of Edinburgh, 2009-

University Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, 2006-2009

University Research Fellow, University of Leeds, 2005-2006

Postdoc/Research Associate, Harvard University, 1999-2005

Parent-carer article by the Royal Society in 2016. 

Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2013-2018).

Zeldovich Medal, COSPAR and the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2010.

Philip Leverhulme Prize recipient, 2008.

Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, 2019- 2024

Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement, Paris, 2018-2020

Visiting Scholar, University of Washington in Seattle, Summer 2014.

Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research (2011-2012).

COSPAR Associate, 2010-.

Visiting Research Scientist, NCAR, USA, (2006-2009).  

Honorary Fellow, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, (2005-2006).  

Principal Investigator and Centre Science Director: NERC NCEO

Science team: Japanese GOSAT, NASA ACOS, NASA OCO-2, OCO-2, CNES, MicroCarb

Committee membership: UK representative on the Committee on Earth Observation Satellite (CEOS) GHG Task Force; EU Task Force on Monitoring Anthropogenic CO2 (11/16-); Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellows Panel (1/19-1/22).

Editorial Advisory Board: Atmospheric Environment, Elementa, Environmental Research Communications

University of Edinburgh

• Earth's Atmospheric Composition (2014-- ). 

• Earth Modelling and Prediction (2008--2014). Lectures now written as a book (Amazon, Wiley from May 2014).

• Atmospheric radiative transfer, M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and Image Processing (2007-2008).

• Contemporary issues in Earth Observation (guest lecture, 2008 and 2009).

Harvard University

• Temporary/guest lecturer, Atmospheric Chemistry EPS 133 (2003, 2004).

University of Oxford

• Graduate tutor, General Physics for Earth Sciences (1995-1996).

Other 

• Tutor (regular), Mathematics and Physics, Greene's Tutorial College, Oxford (1996-1999).

• Tutor (regular and Easter crammer),  Mathematics and Physics, Cherwell Tutorial College, Oxford (1996-1999).