Paul Shearing is Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Department of Engineering Science, Director of the ZERO Institute at the University of Oxford, and a Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Circular Battery Economies.

He holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies. Paul's research interests cover a broad range of electrochemical engineering themes with a particular interest in the characterisation and understanding of materials for batteries, fuel cells and other energy applications.

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. Paul is a major user of synchrotron and neutron facilities, and founded the UK STFC Global Challenge network in Batteries and Electrochemical Devices.