1. Joanna Haigh served as head of the department of physics at Imperial College London.
11 Facts About Joanna Haigh
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Joanna Haigh is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society.
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Joanna Haigh showed an early interest in the weather, building her own weather station in her back garden as a teenager.
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Joanna Haigh studied physics at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree; as per tradition, this was later promoted to a Master of Arts degree.
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Joanna Haigh has served as head of the department of physics at Imperial College from 2009 to 2014.
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Joanna Haigh is known for her work on solar variability, and works on radiative transfer, stratosphere-troposphere coupling and climate modelling.
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Joanna Haigh has served as editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Joanna Haigh stated that she was optimistic about the future, following the COP21 conference, but later, when Donald Trump became president of the United States, she said:.
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Joanna Haigh served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2012 to 2014; she is a vice-president.
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Joanna Haigh was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific in 2013.
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Joanna Haigh is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.