Graeme Swindles is a geoscientist from Northern Ireland, currently a Professor of Physical Geography at Queen's University Belfast.
He is an earth system scientist with broad research interests in past-present-future climate change.
His main research foci include peatland ecosystems, climate change and human-environment relations.
[3][4] Swindles was awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association in 2012.
[7] He also argues that the Anthropocene should remain an informal concept and not be formalised as a geological epoch.