Alexander Hall is an environmental historian and historian of popular science. At home exploring the intersections of the environment, the media and science, he has diverse range of research interests including subjects such as community memory of extreme weather, media coverage of climate change, and the history of science on television.

He is a senior member of the Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society Research Group at the University of Birmingham, a research fellow on the large multidisciplinary project ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum’, and is the current President of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology.