Andrew C. Scott

Andrew C. Scott is Emeritus Professor of Geology and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research has dealt with aspects of palaeobotany, palynology, coal geology, petrology and geochemistry, the geological history of wildfire and the role of fire on Earth. He has appeared in numerous radio programs for the BBC, including In Our Time and The Forum. Andrew has published more than 240 scholarly articles and written or edited several books, including Fire on Earth: An Introduction and Burning Planet.