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Nicholas Branch is a Professor in Quaternary Palaeoecology at the University of Reading's Department of Geography and Environmental Science, serving as School Director for Recruitment and Admissions. His research focuses on Late Pleistocene/Holocene climate-environmental change in Peru, Italy, and the UK, emphasizing climate resilience in Andean agriculture and cultural adaptation. He has supervised numerous PhD students and holds fellowships from the Higher Education Academy and Society of Antiquaries. His work integrates environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, and palaeoclimatology, with recent studies on Peruvian agro-pastoral systems and Apennine land-use practices. Awards include recognition for his contributions to environmental and archaeological sciences.
Education: BSc Archaeology (UCL), MSc Bioarchaeology (UCL), PhD Geography (Royal Holloway). Research affiliations include the Walker Institute and Soil Research Centre. Key publications (2025-2020) address climate resilience, Andean agriculture, and Holocene environmental dynamics. Grants include NERC-funded studies on climate change impacts. His labs/teams collaborate on projects like CROPP (Peruvian climate resilience) and CHILLY (Andean valley studies).
