Professor Mark Brandon

Professor Mark Brandon MBE is a polar oceanographer based in the UK. He has spent his entire career working in polar science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, The British Antarctic Survey, and now a British university. With almost three years of Antarctic field work he has published more than 40 research articles and 3 text books. Mark pioneered the use of robots beneath the Antarctic sea ice and is an expert on the interaction between the ocean and ice. He has worked extensively with broadcast companies and has significant television credits for the BBC series Frozen Planet and Frozen Planet II, Blue Planet and Blue Planet II and Planet Earth. In 2012 he was awarded the Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher of the Year and in 2020 he was awarded an MBE in for Services to Polar Science.