Professional Affiliation

The John Fell Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Oxford

Expert Bio

Troy Sternberg is the John Fell Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Oxford. He completed his D Phil at the University of Oxford where he received the British Academy Post Doctoral Fellowship for research on Climate Hazards in the Gobi Desert. He was awarded a Leverhulme Grant, the Royal Geographical Society’s Thesiger-Oman International Desert Fellowship, a Fulbright scholarship and was the UK-China Visiting Scholar to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Sternberg organised a 3-year project with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and works with the Mongolian Institute of Geography. He was recently selected for the European Union Cooperation in Science and Technology - Arid Lands Restoration and Combating Desertification programme.