Bill McGuire

Professor Bill McGuire, is a professor of Volcanology at University College London and is widely accepted as one of Britain's leading volcanologists. His main interests include monitoring volcanoes and global geophysical events. One of McGuire's main research points is the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano in Wyoming.

McGuire began his career as a lecturer at the West London Institute of Higher Education, part of the University of London, in the early 1980s. He now heads up the respected Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre at University College London.

McGuire has appeared on many TV shows including Horizon, one of the BBCs most popular and successful "Science & Nature" programmes, Countdown to Doomsday on the Sci Fi Channel, and Decoding the Past ("Earth's Black Hole") on The History Channel. He's successfully positioned himself as a leading "go to man" in the UK whenever journalists want to write about geological disasters such as supervolcanoes, impact events, tsunamis and earthquakes. He is also notable for once describing Tokyo as "the city waiting to die", referring to its placement on a prominent geological fault that could result in a highly damaging earthquake.