The Grantham Institute at Imperial – with Professor Toumi
The Grantham Institute sits at the heart of Imperial's work on climate change and the environment.
Professor Ralf Toumi - Director, The Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Department of Physics, Imperial.
Established in 2007, the Institute's mission is to lead on world-class research, policy, training and innovation that supports effective action on climate change. They drive forward effective UK and international action on climate change and the environment, in pursuit of a sustainable, resilient, zero-carbon society.
In this live streamed event, find out more about what they do, and how they are making an impact from Professor Ralf Toumi, the Director of the Institute.
Professor Toumi's ambition is to deliver the Institute mission by pioneering education, research, innovation and policy translation. The Institute is organised in pillars, with their respective leaders, which you will see below. His own research is focused on the physics of tropical cyclones. He is also interested in the physical risk of climate change more broadly.
Professor Toumi was awarded his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was then appointed a temporary lecturer in the Chemistry Department in Cambridge and a Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Christ's College. In 1994 he moved to the Physics Department at Imperial College as a Lecturer, promoted to Professor of Atmospheric Physics in 2005 and was Head of the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group (2014-2020). Since 2020 he has been the Co-director of the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment.
Awards include the Phillip Leverhulme Prize for "scholars of outstanding distinction" (2002), a Merit Award by Imperial College for outstanding achievement in research (2004), a Royal Society Industry Fellowship (2006-2010) and a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (2009-2012) on adaptation in the energy sector. Significant services to the community were as Co-chair of Adaptation Services in the Climate KIC (2013-2015) and co-authoring and reviewing many international reports such as WMO Ozone Assessments, SPARC and IPCC Reports. He has served on the ESA mission advisory and the European Commission Climate Services Road Map groups.
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