SAGE provides scientific and technical advice to support government decision makers during emergencies and is responsible for pulling together the scientific research and analysis from across government, academia and industry.
Alan is part of SAGE’s Environmental Working Group, which identifies how environmental modelling, sampling and data analysis can play a part in comprehending the transmission of Covid-19, in an aim to understand the routes and factors of transmission.
Alan joins UCL colleagues Professors Russell Viner (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Susan Michie (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) as SAGE members. A number of Honorary UCL academics have also been appointed.
The numbers of UCL researchers represented on SAGE and its sub-groups demonstrates the breadth of our academic excellence across many scientific disciplines and the huge number of ways that our community is mobilising to support the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
– Professor Michael Arthur, UCL President and Provost
Alan is former Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
More information
- Related article: Covid-19: Leading UCL academics named on SAGE
- Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
Image: Professor Alan Penn. Photography: Richard Stonehouse.
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