Professor Geoffrey Boulton OBE FRS FRSE is Regius Professor of Geology Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. He is President of CODATA, a member of the Council of the Royal Society, chairs its Science Policy Centre and was principal author of the influential Royal Society Report on Open Data. He is a member of the UK Government’s Research Transparency Board and until recently he was a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, the UK’s top-level science advisory body. His research is in the fields of environmental geology and glaciology, frequently involving large and diverse data volumes, and he currently leads a major project on the Antarctic Ice Sheet. He has many national and international awards for his scientific work.
