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Professor Peter Haynes is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, at the University of Cambridge, where he has held this position since 2001. He served as Head of the Department from 2005 to 2015, following roles as Reader in Atmospheric Science from 1999 to 2000 and University Lecturer from 1991 to 1999. His early career included a Royal Society Meteorological Office Research Fellowship in Dynamical Meteorology from 1986 to 1990 at the same department, after completing a postdoctoral research associateship at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean, University of Washington, from 1984 to 1985. Haynes earned his PhD from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, completing in 1983. He is a Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies for Part II Mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019, he also received the Maxwell Medal and Prize for Theoretical Physics from the Institute of Physics in 2010. Additionally, he holds a Visiting Professorship at Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées and serves as co-Convenor of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science.