Peter M. Atkinson

Professor Peter Atkinson is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Lancaster University. Since 2015, he has been responsible for the strategic leadership of the Faculty, which comprises seven departments. In 2018-19, he was also simultaneously Interim Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster. In 2018-19, Peter Chaired the University’s Athena SWAN Institutional Self-Assessment Team (ISAT) which led to a successful Institutional Bronze Award.

Peter is a Distinguished Professor of Spatial Data Science at Lancaster. His research is highly interdisciplinary, covering a wide range of statistical and numerical modeling methods on the one hand, and several application domains on the other. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, was awarded the 2016 Peter Burrough Medal of the ISARA organization, and held the 2015 Belle van Zuylen Chair at Utrecht University.