Myles Robert Allen was born on 11 August 1965 and is an English climate scientist.
10 Facts About Myles Allen
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Myles Allen is Professor of Geosystem Science in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.
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Myles Allen was a student of St John's College, Oxford.
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Myles Allen is the Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
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Myles Allen has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Myles Allen's research focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the future.
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Myles Allen provided the technical expertise for the game Fate of the World, which is "a PC strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years".
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In 2010, Myles Allen was awarded the Edward Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions".
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Myles Allen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to climate change attribution and prediction and net-zero.
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Myles Allen married Irene Tracey in 1994 and has three children.