Prof Andrew Soward, FRS

Career: visiting memb Univ of NY Courant Inst of Mathematical Sciences 1969-70; visiting fell Co-op Inst for Res in Environmental Sciences Boulder Colorado 1970-71; Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne: SRC res fell 1971, lectr 1971-81, reader in fluid mechanics 1981-86, head Dept of Applied Mathematics 1985-88, prof of fluid dynamics 1986-95, head Div of Applied Mathematics 1989-95; prof of applied mathematics Univ of Exeter 1996-; res and teacher Inst of Geophysics and Planetary Physics UCLA 1977-78; on staff Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Sch Woods Hole Oceanographic Instn MA 1978 and 1987; ed Jl of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 1991- (memb Editorial Bd 1986-89, assoc ed 1989-90); FRAS, FIMA, FRS 1991

Books and Publications: book series ed The Fluid Mechanics of Astrophysics and Geophysics (jtly, 1994-2010); author of over 100 scientific papers