Professor Dan Parsons joined Loughborough in 2022 as PVC Research and Innovation. He studied at the University of Sheffield, completing his PhD in 2004, before moving to the University of Leeds as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

He secured a prestigious UKRI-NERC Fellowship in 2005, and worked as a Lecturer at the University until 2011 – while holding a two-year Research Fellowship at the University of Illinois. He then moved to the University of Hull to take up the role of Professor of Process Sedimentology, serving as Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in Science and Engineering for three years.

He was the Founding Director of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute which grew under his leadership – bringing together a multidisciplinary team of more than 180 researchers to conduct impactful research on the global challenges presented by environmental change.

Dan has been a member of UKRI-NERC’s Science Committee since 2020, and was Division President at the European Geosciences Union, 2018-22.