Peter Wadhams is the UK's most experienced sea ice scientist, with 49 years of research in sea ice and ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic. He is an Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge Univeristy and is the author of over 300 publications on dynamics and thermodynamics of sea ice, sea ice thickness, waves in ice, icebergs, ocean convection and kindred top ics. Current main topics of research are sea ice properties, dynamics and distributions in thickness and concentration, as well as the wider impact of sea ice retreat on global climate change. He was coordinator ofthe EU GreeniCE and CONVECTION projects and until recently was on the Steering Committee of EU FP7 ICE-ARC.

From 2004 to 2012, he was on the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency.

In 1990 he received the Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences, and he has also been awarded the Polar Medal (UK) and the W.S. Bruce Prize ofthe Royal Society of Edinburgh. 

In the 2^nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions he will lecture An Introduction to Climate Change in the Preliminary Courses.