He then completed a PhD supervised by John W. Miles at the University of California, San Diego,[1][5] and came as an ICI Post-doctoral Fellow to DAMTP in Cambridge in 1968.
[citation needed] He has published using fluid-mechanical principles in applications to the Earth sciences: in meteorology, oceanography and geology.
He was Chairman of a Royal Society Working Group on bioterrorism, which produced a Report entitled 'Making the UK Safer', on 21 April 2004.
Since 1990 he has held a part-time Professorship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
In 1966, Huppert married Felicia (née Ferster);[2] she was an Emerita Professor of Psychology and a past fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.