Biography
Peter Atkinson is Distinguished Professor of Spatial Data Science at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK where he was also Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2025 and interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medicine from 2018 to 2019. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Cardiff University, University of Bristol, University of Southampton and Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He was previously Head of the School of Geography at the University of Southampton. Peter was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2019. He received the Cuthbert Peek Award of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) in 2024, was the 2020 Distinguished Lecturer of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), Laureat of the Peter Burrough Medal 2016 of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA), and was awarded the Belle van Zuylen Chair in 2014 with Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Professor Atkinson is Editor-in-Chief of Science of Remote Sensing and Associate Editor of Environmetrics. Peter Atkinson is an inaugural highly ranked scholar on ScholarGPS (2024) and an ISI highly-cited researcher (2023, 2024).