Professor Cédric John is head of Data Science and the Environment at the Digital Environments Research Institute (DERI) at Queen Mary University of London. After completing his undergraduate degree in geology from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, he pursued a Ph.D. in carbonate sedimentology at the University of Potsdam (Germany), and a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
John’s then served as a staff scientist with the U.S. Implementing Organization of the International Ocean Drilling Program in College Station, Texas, where his role included planning and leading scientific drilling expeditions at sea. He obtained his first faculty position in 2006, as a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, being subsequently promoted up to associate professor in Earth-Centric AI in 2018. He was then recruited as a full professor at DERI in January 2024.
John’s research encompasses carbonate systems, field geology, clumped isotope geochemistry, alongside computational methods, and data science (including artificial intelligence). He works on two inter-related problems: understanding past and current climate change and using the subsurface to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy. For more information on Professor John's research and his team's work, visit www.john-lab.org.