Myles Robert Allen (born 11 August 1965) is an English climate scientist. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the University of Oxford's
School of Geography and the Environment, and head of the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.
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Education
Allen was educated at the British School in the Netherlands and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in physics and philosophy in 1987 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992. He was a student of St. John's College, Oxford.
Career
As well as his position as Professor of Geosystem science at Oxford, he is the Principal Investigator of the distributed computing project Climateprediction.net (which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public), and was principally responsible for starting this project. He is the Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
Allen has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.