Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson (born 1977) is a British geoscientist, science communicator and Director of Sustainable Geoscience at Jacobs Engineering Group.

He was previously Professor of Sustainable Geoscience at the University of Manchester, and before that held the Equinor Chair of Basin Analysis at Imperial College, London.

[8][9][10] In a 2017 interview with the Guardian newspaper, Jackson stated that he knew of "no other black, full-time, Earth science academic in the UK – or in fact, Europe or the US.

[16][17] In March 2022, Jackson announced on Twitter that he was leaving the University of Manchester to work for the scientific consulting firm Jacobs Engineering Group.

[24][25] After it was announced that he was to be one of the lecturers, Jackson was the subject of racist abuse online, including being sent a clip on Twitter of a black person being beaten.

[28] He has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programmes The Life Scientific[29] and The Infinite Monkey Cage,[30] as well as The Graham Norton Show[31] He has presented his own podcast, A Grown Up Guide to Planet Earth,[32][33] which was hosted on Audible.