A scientist who has done pioneering work on global warming has been killed in a road accident, it has emerged.
Dr Katharine Giles, who worked at University College London (UCL), was involved in a collision with a lorry while cycling to work on Monday.
The 35-year-old had carried out important research relating to the Arctic and Antarctic.
Her death comes just three months after a senior colleague, Prof Seymour Laxon, 49, died in a fall, hitting his head and suffering a brain haemorrhage.
The head of the earth sciences department, Prof Philip Meredith, told staff and students: "We are all left with a sense of the outrageous unfairness with which some of our best colleagues have been taken from us.
"Katharine had a bright future ahead of her. She graduated with a first class degree in earth and space sciences from UCL, studied under Seymour for her PhD, and went on to forge her own career as a research fellow and most recently as a university lecturer."
