
Martin Siegert
Prof. Martin Siegert FRSE is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Cornwall) at the University of Exeter and Chair of The UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnerships committee. Previously he was a Professor at Imperial College London and Co-Director of the Grantham Institute since May 2014, where he now holds a visiting professorship. Before that he was Head of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now an honorary Professor. Martin led the Lake Ellsworth Consortium – a UK-NERC funded programme that designed an experiment to explore a large subglacial lake beneath the ice of West Antarctica and is the UK PI on the International ICECAP programme that has deployed medium range geophysical flights in Antarctica since 2008.
Latest articles by Martin Siegert

'The scientific cost would be severe': A Trump Greenland takeover would put climate research at risk
By Martin Siegert published
Trump's calls for a takeover of Greenland puts open scientific collaboration that is helping our understanding of the threat of global sea-level rise at risk.
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