Andrew C. Scott

Andrew C. Scott graduated with a B.Sc. in Geology from Bedford College, University of London in 1973. He then undertook his doctoral research in the Botany Department at Birkbeck College. University of London with Professor W. G. Chaloner FRS and was awarded his PhD in 1976 for his thesis “Environmental Control of Westphalian Plant Assemblages from Northern Britain” for which he received the University Science prize. Following post-doctoral research in the Department of Geology at Trinity College Dublin he was appointed as Lecturer in Geology in the Department of Geology at Chelsea College, University of London in 1978. In 1985 the department merged with that from Bedford College and Kings College in the University of London to form the new Geology Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Andrew was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1989, Reader in 1993 and to Professor of Applied Palaeobotany in 1996. In 2002 he was awarded a London University D.Sc. for “Contributions towards our understanding of ancient terrestrial ecosystems.” Between 1998 and 2006 he was Director of Science and the Media then Science Communication. Andrew spent a sabbatical year (2006-7) as visiting Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University, as well as a visiting fellow of Berkeley College. Andrew was a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow 2012-2014 and was appointed Emeritus Professor of Geology in 2012. In 2019 he was reappointed as Distinguished Research Professor in Ancient and Modern Fire Systems.

Andrew Scott has been a charted geologist (C.Geol) since 1991and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2007. He is also a Fellow of: the Geological Society of London and the Geological Society of America. Andrew is an Honorary Professor at Jilin University, Changchun, China.

Andrew regularly participates in International conferences, as organizer, keynote speaker or as a participant. He helped organize the Royal Society meetings on ‘The Interaction of Fire and Mankind’ for the Royal Society in September 2015.