Professor Geoffrey Boulton OBE, FGS, FRS, FRSE

Past Member

Vice Principal and Regius Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Edinburgh

Professor Boulton is a member of the Committee for Science and Technology and Chairs its Science and Society subgroup. He is also the Chair of SHEFC’s Knowledge Transfer Taskforce and of the Institute for Science Education in Scotland. Professor Boulton has wide experience of chairing and serving on a broad range of UK and international scientific bodies. His research, for which he has received a number of international awards, is concerned with global environmental change, with implications for issues such as the disposal of radioactive waste.