Simon Redfern is President's Chair in Earth Sciences at the Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research spans mineral physics, high-pressure crystallography, and computational geochemistry, with a growing focus on climate-mitigation geoscience, including enhanced rock weathering and ocean alkalinity enhancement as pathways for carbon dioxide removal. His work connects the atomic-scale behaviour of minerals under extreme conditions to planetary-scale processes, from the deep interiors of Earth and other planets to the carbon cycle at Earth's surface. Before moving to Singapore, he spent 25 years at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Head of the Department of Earth Sciences. He has published more than 300 papers, holds an h-index of 73, and leads several major funded programmes on carbon capture, utilisation and storage, and Earth materials at extreme conditions. He is committed to earth science in the service of society, spanning fundamental discovery and real-world climate solutions.