Professor Sarah Bridle is a transdisciplinary researcher at York University driven by the need to tackle climate change, focusing on a quantitative approach to helping transform food systems to steward change to new kinds of futures. Sarah’s current research focuses on synthesising, exploring and effectively communicating environmental and nutrition impacts of different dietary options, with the aim of driving changes in food production methods and portfolios to be healthy for people and planet. Sarah founded the Take a Bite out of Climate Change project, including leading a stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2019.
Sarah has a unique combination of expertise including interpreting large data sets using statistical methods, with a degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge (2000), and statistical cosmology research in France (2000-2001), Cambridge (2001-2004), UCL London (2004-2012), Manchester (2013-2021) and York (2021-). She is the author of more than a hundred peer-refereed publications with over 10,000 citations, and holds many prestigious awards, including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Award and ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants.
She is also the author of the book, Food and Climate Change – Without the Hot Air, published in September 2020 by UIT Cambridge.
