Peter ATKINSON

Prof. Peter ATKINSON is a Geographer with an international reputation of research for Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Science, and spatial statistics. He previously was a Professor and the Head of the School of Geography at the University of Southampton, where he was part of the central team leading the Southampton University's REF2014 submission. He holds the Bell van Zuylen Chair in the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, Netherlands and was recently Visiting Fellow at the Green-Templeton College and the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Prof. ATKINSON has published around 180 scientific papers in international journals, is currently Associate Editor for Computers and Geosciences, and sits on the editorial boards of journals including Geographical Analysis, Spatial Statistics, the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, and Environmental Informatics.