Jane Francis

**Farfesa Dame Jane Elizabeth Francis**, DCMG FRS (an haife ta a watan Oktoba shekara ta 1956) masanin ilimin yanayi ne na Burtaniya wanda shine Darakta na Binciken Antarctic na Burtaniya .  Ta taba aiki a matsayin Farfesa na Palaeoclimatology a Jami'ar Leeds inda ta kuma kasance Dean na Faculty of Environment. A shekara ta 2002 ita ce mace ta huɗu da ta karbi lambar yabo ta Polar don gudummawa mai ban mamaki ga binciken polar na Burtaniya. A halin yanzu ita ce shugabar Jami'ar Leeds.

## Ilimi
Francis ta yi karatu a makarantar Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School a Canterbury, kuma ta sami digiri na farko a fannin ilimin ƙasa da PhD daga Jami'ar Southampton . 

## Ayyuka
Francis ya kasance dalibi ne na bincike na NERC a fannin ilimin ƙasa / ilmin halitta a Jami'ar Southampton daga 1979 har zuwa 1982.  Ta ci gaba a matsayin NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow a Kwalejin Bedford, London, har zuwa 1984.  An nada ta zuwa matsayi a matsayin Palaeobotanist a British Antarctic Survey (BAS), daga 1984 zuwa 1986. 

Shekaru biyar Francis ya kasance Mataimakin Bincike na Postdoctoral tare da Larry Frakes a Jami'ar Adelaide .  A shekara ta 1991 ta karbi matsayi a matsayin malami a Sashen Kimiyya na Duniya a Jami'ar Leeds ta Burtaniya; an inganta ta zuwa Babban Malami a shekara ta 1996. A shekara ta 2002, an ba ta lambar yabo ta Polar, ta zama mace ta huɗu a tarihi da ta karbi kyautar.

An inganta ta zuwa Farfesa na Palaeoclimatology a Makarantar Duniya da Muhalli kuma ta kasance Darakta na Cibiyar Kimiyya ta Polar a Jami'ar Leeds,  kafin ta zama Dean na Faculty of Environment a 2008.  Ita Farfesa ce mai daraja a Jami'ar Leeds . A ranar 1 ga Oktoba 2013 Francis ta ɗauki matsayinta na Darakta na Binciken Antarctic na Burtaniya, ta zama mace ta farko Darakta ta ma'aikatar.

Francis's principal interests are in palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany. She specialises in the study of fossil plants, and their use as tools for climate interpretation and information about past biodiversity: for example, understanding past climate change during greenhouse and icehouse periods. Her research has emphasised the "Antarctic paradox," that although the Antarctic is largely inhospitable now, its abundant plant fossils indicate a drastically warmer past climate. She has undertaken more than 16 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.

Kungiyar Geological Society of London ta bayyana Francis a lokacin bayar da lambar yabo ta Coke a matsayin "mai taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen tsarawa da jagorantar kimiyyar duniya da aka gudanar a yankuna masu tasowa, ta hanyar babban aikinta a kwamitocin manufofi na kasa da kasa. "  Ita ce kuma mace ta farko da ta jagoranci Operation Working Group of Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, taron kasa da kasa na kasashe masu shari'a da kuma aiki a Antarctica. 

Francis tana da mambobi da yawa na kungiyoyin kimiyya na kasa da na duniya. Ita memba ce ta Kwamitin Binciken Muhalli na Burtaniya (NERC); memba ne na Kungiyar Ba da Shawara ta Kimiyya ta Sakatariyar Binciken Yammacin Sweden; memba ne na Kwamitin Zartarwa na Kwamitin Yammacin Turai; kuma Wakilin Burtaniya a Kwamitin Kimiyya na Duniya kan Binciken Antarctic.

## Kyaututtuka
An amince da gudummawar Francis tare da kyaututtuka da yawa. Mafi mahimmanci, an ba ta lambar yabo ta Polar a shekara ta 2002 don gudummawa mai ban mamaki ga binciken polar na Burtaniya, wanda H.M. Elizabeth II ya gabatar, kuma ita ce mace ta huɗu da ta taɓa karɓar kyautar.

Ta sami digiri na girmamawa na Kimiyya daga Jami'ar Leeds a cikin 2014, [1] da kuma digiri na girmamawar Kimiyya na Muhalli daga Jami'an Plymouth, kuma a cikin 2014. [2] A wannan shekarar an ba ta suna "Masanin kimiyya mai bincike" daga cikin manyan masana kimiyya na Burtaniya 100 ta Majalisar Kimiyya.[3] Har ila yau, an ba ta lambar yabo ta Coke daga Geological Society of London (2014); Kyautar Shugaban kasa na Paleontological Society; Medal na Antarctic Service daga Gidauniyar Kimiyya ta Amurka; da kuma Kyautar Ayyuka daga mujallar BBC 'eve', wanda Nivea ta tallafawa.[4][5][5]

A cikin girmamawar Sabuwar Shekara ta 2017, an nada Francis a matsayin Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) don hidimomi ga kimiyyar polar da diflomasiyya.

A cikin 2017, Francis ya zama shugaban Jami'ar Leeds na bakwai, wanda ya gaji Melvyn Bragg. A watan Disamba na shekara ta 2020 binciken Antarctic na Burtaniya ya ba da sunan tudu a Tsibirin Adelaide, Francis Peak, bayan ta. An zabe ta Fellow na Royal Society a shekarar 2021.

## Manazarta