Peter Barnes

Professor Sir Peter Barnes FMedSci, FRS is Professor of Thoracic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and was Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London 1987-2017. He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and trained in London. He has published >1500 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD (h-index 230) and has written/edited >50 books. He has been the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years. He was President of the ERS in 2013/2014 and was knighted for services to respiratory science in 2023.