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Professor Paul Curran is Vice-Chancellor of City University London. He took up his post in August 2010 previously served as Vice-Chancellor of Bournemouth University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton where he is currently a Visiting Professor. As a member of the senior management team at Southampton, progressing from Head of Geography to Dean of Science, Curran was credited with high-profile leadership as Head of the Winchester School of Art, part of the University of Southampton.
A former NASA research scientist and advisor to the European Space Agency, Curran's research interests include investigations into global environmental change, in particular the movement of carbon between the atmosphere and forests. His award-winning work in Earth observation, involving the use of satellite sensors to monitor the environment at local to global scales, is widely published and he is the youngest recipient of the Remote Sensing Society’s Gold Medal.
In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II approved the award of the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society to Paul for his ‘international development of geographical science through remote sensing and Earth observation’.
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