Daniel Roy Parsons is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Loughborough University and holds the Personal Title of Professor in Geosciences.
He was the founding Director of the Energy and Environment Institute (2017–2022)[1] and a professor of process sedimentology at the University of Hull from 2011 to 2022.
[4] Parsons is known for his work on flow processes and sediment transport in rivers, coasts and estuaries, and the deep sea.
[7] Parsons also researches the leakage and transport of plastics in rivers, coasts and estuaries and as part of the Huxley debate at the 2018 British Science Festival he claimed that the most significant marker for the Anthropocene age may be the fossilisation of plastic debris such as formed in plastiglomerate.
[9] He is presently President of Division for Geomorphology of the European Geosciences Union[10] and a Commissioner on the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, chairing the Research and Evidence Panel.