Professor Dr. Paul Shearing

Biography

Paul Shearing is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and serves as the Director of the ZERO Institute. He holds the Royal Academy Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies and is responsible for shaping the Institute's ethos, strategy, and teaching programs. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024, Shearing's research encompasses a wide range of electrochemical engineering themes, with a particular emphasis on the characterization and understanding of materials for batteries and fuel cells, and their applications in zero carbon energy systems. He is a founding investigator at the Faraday Institution, which is the UK’s independent institute dedicated to electrochemical energy storage research, and he leads key research programs including LiSTAR and Safebatt. His expertise has made him a principal user of synchrotron and neutron facilities, and he established the UK STFC Global Challenge network focused on Batteries and Electrochemical Devices.

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