Deputy Vice Chancellor (Cornwall)
University of Exeter
Glaciologist Professor Martin Siegert FRSE has been Deputy Vice Chancellor (Cornwall) of the University of Exeter since November 2022. Prior to this he was Co-Director of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment – at Imperial College London, where he now holds a Visiting Professorship. He has also been Head of the School of GeoSciences at Edinburgh University, where he holds an Honorary Professorship. He has undertaken three Antarctic field seasons, using geophysics to measure the subglacial landscape and understand what it tells us about past changes in Antarctica and elsewhere. In 2013 he was awarded the Martha T Muse Prize for excellence in Antarctic science and policy, and in 2007 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.