David Marshall (academic), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Marshall (academic)

British oceanographer

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1968

Place of Birth: London

Profession: oceanographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

David Marshall (born 13 July 1968) is Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford.
He was head of the sub-department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics from 2014-2018.
From 2008 to 2012 he was co-director of the 21st Century Ocean Institute within the Oxford Martin School.
He was awarded the 2014 Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "fundamental contributions to understanding the fluid dynamics of the global ocean circulation".Marshall studied at Imperial College London and then spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He returned to the UK to establish the Physical Oceanography Group at the University of Reading, before moving to the University of Oxford in 2007.
In 2017 he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.