Professor Peter Tucker, PhD, CPhys, FInstP
Professor Peter Tucker holds the Newspaper Industry Foundation Chair in Environmental Technology at the University of the West of Scotland. He is a physicist by training and has a doctorate in geophysics.
He spent the early part of his career working as a scientist in the UK Department of Trade and Industry’s Warren Spring Environmental Technology Laboratory, where he rose to become head of Environmental Modelling and Statistics. Environmental modelling has always been at the fore of his research interests, and he has developed a strong interest in modelling uncertainty in complex environmental systems. During his career, he has researched, developed and deployed modelling across a wide range of applications including air and marine pollution, mineral processing and reclamation, land contamination, and environmental and waste management. He has been involved in a number of Government waste research programmes to gather national waste statistics and managed the database development for the National Household Waste Analysis Programme.
On joining the University of Paisley in 1995, he has strengthened and developed the University’s thriving research initiatives across environmental science, though has maintained a personal research focus on the environmental management of solid and wet particulate wastes, including recycling, composting, and land application of wastes.
Professor Tucker is a strong advocate of interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving, as is quite delighted in this monograph to mix psychology with process engineering in order to help facilitate understanding. He is also highly committed to building in social and environmental factors into the decision making process.
Tel: +44-141-848-3205
Fax: +44-141-848-3204
e-mail: Peter.Tucker@uws.ac.uk