Joanna Haigh

Joanna Dorothy Haigh, CBE, FRS, FRMetS (born 7 May 1954) is a British physicist and academic. She is Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. She is a former head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Haigh was born on 7 May 1954. She was educated at Hitchin Girls' School, then an all-girls grammar school in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. She studied physics at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, this was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA (Oxon)) degree. This was followed by a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Meteorology at Imperial College London. She returned to Oxford to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Atmospheric Physics under the supervision of C.D. Walshaw. This was awarded in 1980 and her doctoral thesis was titled "Experiments with a two-dimensional model of the general circulation".