Professor Tim Palmer, CBE, FRS, is a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Oxford. His PhD was in general relativity theory, but he has spent much of his career researching the nonlinear dynamics of our climate system. Most notably, Professor Palmer discovered the world’s largest breaking waves in the stratosphere and pioneered the development of probabilistic ensemble prediction techniques for weather and climate forecasting. In recent years Dr. Palmer has become active in the field of quantum foundations. 

He was appointed as CBE for services to science and has won the top awards of organizations such as the American Meteorological Society, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society. He is an international member of several renowned global academies, including the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Palmer has been formally acknowledged for his contributions as lead author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize.