Paul Shearing is Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Department of Engineering Science and Director of the ZERO Institute at Oxford University. He holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies. His research interests centre on the characterisation and understanding of materials for batteries and other energy applications with a major focus on the development of new X-ray techniques. He was a founding investigator of The Faraday Institution, the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research where he leads the LiSTAR and Safebatt research programmes. He is a major user of synchrotron and neutron facilities, and founded the UK STFC Global Challenge network in Batteries and Electrochemical Devices.  He was the recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal in 2022, and elected a Fellow in 2024.

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