Professor Pierre Friedlingstein FRS is an internationally recognised leader in the understanding of the global carbon cycle and the feedbacks between the carbon cycle and the climate system. He holds a Chair in Mathematical Modelling of the Climate System at the University of Exeter. A Fellow of the Royal Society and a former Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit recipient, he also serves as the Research Director at the Laboratoire de Météorologie dynamique (LMD) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. 

With nearly 30 years of research experience, Professor Friedlingstein specialises in the field of global carbon cycle modelling, global biogeochemical cycles, and global climate change. He has published articles in high profile journals such as Nature publishing, Science, and PNAS. He has received several awards for his work, including Distinguished Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2024, Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2020, and Alexander von Humbold Research award in 2019. He was ranked 3rd on the Reuters list of the world’s top climate scientists in 2021, and he has been a Thompson Reuters highly cited researcher every year since 2014.