Professor Simon Lewis and Professor David Jones
Professor Simon Lewis and Professor David Jones In recognition for their outstanding contributions to science, Professor Simon Lewis (UCL Geography) and Professor David Jones (UCL Computer Science) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society. They are among 80 outstanding researchers, innovators and communicators from around the world who have been elected as the newest Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence. Fellowship of the Royal Society is composed of the most distinguished scientists, technologists and engineers from or living and working in the UK and the Commonwealth, alongside a shorter list of Foreign Members. The Fellows and Foreign Members join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Dorothy Hodgkin. Professor Simon Lewis is a field ecologist who studies global environmental change at UCL's Department of Geography. This unusual combination led to the landmark discovery that the world's intact tropical forests annually absorbed around 15% of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in recent decades, slowing climate change, but that this uptake is now in decline. He also described and mapped a major new ecosystem, the central Congo peatlands, which is the world's largest tropical peatland complex.
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