Scott Hosking
Mission Director, Environmental Forecasting at British Antarctic Survey
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Hosking is a mission-driven AI and environmental scientist with 11+ years of experience building specialized deep learning systems for weather, climate and environmental resilience. He founded the British Antarctic Survey AI Lab and now directs Environmental Forecasting at the Alan Turing Institute, developing fast, accurate AI weather and Earth-system models and pushing safe Environmental Digital Twins into practice. Trained as a climate scientist (PhD, Cambridge) with an MChem background, he blends rigorous domain knowledge with engineering pragmatism to deliver models that outperform traditional approaches in speed, accuracy and accessibility. His career spans academic leadership, national research infrastructure advisory roles, and hands-on deployment in extreme environments — an uncommon mix that accelerates real-world climate decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MChem (Hons), Chemistry, MChem (Hons), Chemistry at Bangor UniversityPhD, Climate Science, PhD, Climate Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (39)
volumes10
python10
climate-science10
image-processing9
climate-model9
image-analysis9
computer-vision9
machine-learning8
environmental-monitoring8
station8
data-science8
electron7
climate-change7
typescript7
synchronize6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scotthosking/get-station-data
Feb 2017 - Aug 2022
Easily grab weather station data from around the globe (e.g. GHCN)
Contributions:1 release, 67 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 6 months
globeweather-stationpythongrabstation
scotthosking/scotthosking.github.io
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:231 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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