Rate My Professor Oliver Wild

Professor Oliver Wild FRMetS is Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, where he has held the position since 2017, previously serving as Reader from 2007 to 2017. Earlier in his career, he was Research Associate at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge (2005-2007), Research Scientist at the Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan (1999-2005), Postdoctoral Research Associate at Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine (1996-1999), and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge (1995-1996). He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge in 1995, and a BA in Natural Sciences from the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge in 1990. He currently serves as Programme Director for Environmental Science and Earth and Environmental Science degree schemes and was Associate Director for Research in the Lancaster Environment Centre from 2017 to 2023. Wild possesses over 30 years of experience in developing and applying numerical models of atmospheric processes across scales from urban to global.

Wild's research centers on modelling atmospheric composition, chemistry, and transport to understand how emissions of trace gases affect regional air quality and global climate. His interests encompass intercontinental transport of ozone and precursors, indirect climate effects of short-lived gases including NOx and CO, regional and urban air quality in the UK and East Asia, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, processes controlling surface ozone, and reducing uncertainties in chemistry-transport models. He has published more than 140 refereed journal papers, with notable contributions such as 'Fast-J: Accurate simulation of in- and below-cloud photolysis in tropospheric chemical models' (Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 2000), 'Indirect long-term global cooling from NOx emissions' (Geophysical Research Letters, 2001), 'Trans-Eurasian Transport of Ozone and its Precursors' (Journal of Geophysical Research, 2004), and 'Quantifying and addressing the uncertainties in tropospheric ozone and OH in a global chemistry transport model' (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2026). A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS), he received the EGU Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2025 and has edited Atmospheric Science Letters and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere. He participates in committees for NERC Peer Review College, iCACGP, IPCC, and others.