Dr Thomas Smith is Associate Professor in Environmental Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics.
Tom is a geographer and environmental scientist, specialising in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the interaction between humans and wildfires in the Earth system. Tom enjoys highly collaborative field research focusing on smoke emissions from wildfires in savannas and tropical peatlands, as well as at home in the UK.
His work explores smoke composition and monitoring, societal perceptions of smoke pollution, environmental policies, Indigenous fire knowledge, deforestation and peat degradation impacts, as well as fire behaviour.
