Brian Hoskins studied mathematics at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1970. He was a reader in atmospheric modeling and later on became professor and head of the department of meteorology at the University of Reading. With his scientific background in meteorology and climatology, he is particularly interested in atmospheric motion from the scale of fronts to that of the Earth. As a member of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Hoskins contributed to the report "The Physical Science Basis" of the Fourth Assessment Report that was published earlier this year.