William Collins
Professor in Residence, Earth & Planetary Science; Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
William Collins is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. His personal research concerns the interactions among greenhouse gases and aerosols, the coupled climate system, and global environmental change. Dr. Collins’s is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He was awarded the AGU’s Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lectureship in 2019. He was a Lead Author on the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and has also served as Lead Author on the Fifth and upcoming Sixth Assessments. His role as Chief Scientist in launching the Department of Energy’s Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) program was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary’s Achievement Award on May 7, 2015.
