Professor Zoe Shipton
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal statement
Engineering the subsurface is critical to reaching net zero: underpinning new clean energy (geothermal, offshore wind); enabling large-scale energy storage (pumped storage hydropower; thermal storage, compressed air, hydrogen); and providing safe long-term storage of waste (geological disposal of CO2, radioactive waste disposal). My research spans fundamental geoscience research on subsurface processes, understanding geological and interpretational uncertainties, through to the social science of communicating these geological concepts & uncertainties, and demonstrating novel technologies through in-ground experiments. To help achieve the large-scale changes in our energy system and society that are needed to meet - and ideally exceed - our net zero targets, I work in close collaboration between academia, industry, government and civil society across a wide range of disciplines.听
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Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 7/2025
- Recipient
- 7/11/2023
- Recipient
- 2016
- Recipient
- 2010
Publications
- , , , , Ewe Win Eng, Flude Stephanie, Molnar Ian, Mukherjee Indrani, Wang Huachuan, ,
- Journal of Energy Storage Vol 162 (2026)
- , Molnar Ian, , Attili Antonio, , Ewe Win Eng, Flude Stephanie, Mukherjee Indrani, , Wang Huachuan, ,
- Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology Vol 59 (2026)
- Mukherjee Indrani, , Flude Stephanie, , , Wang Huachuan, Ewe Win Eng, , Molnar Ian L, , ,
- Water Security, Management, and Energy Nexus 1st International Conference on Sustainable Water Management, and Resource Adaptation, SWMRA 2024 Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, pp. 331-342 (2026)
- , Otalega I, Johnson G, Flude S, ,
- Geoenergy Vol 1 (2026)
- , , , Bossennec Claire, Fuchs Sven, Deon Fiorenza
- Geothermics Vol 136 (2026)
- , , , Jack Christopher D
- Engineering Geology Vol 362 (2026)
Professional Activities
- Participant
- 8/5/2025
- Speaker
- 29/1/2024
- Contributor
- 10/1/2024
- Speaker
- 6/5/2020
- Speaker
- 6/5/2020
- Speaker
- 5/5/2020
Projects
- Suryasentana, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Kremer, Yannick (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2026 - 30-Jan-2027
- Paez Jimenez, Mariana Gabriela (Post Grad Student) De Angelis, Marco (Principal Investigator) Giesekam, Jannik (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- The uncertainty inherent in CO2 estimations at the organisational and product levels has received significantly less academic scrutiny than national or global inventories, yet such CO2 estimations serve as foundational data for higher-level carbon accounting. Carbon accounting often relies on practitioners whose expertise is not climate science, leading to high levels of epistemic uncertainty, methodological variation and data variability. This project addresses three critical questions: (1) How much uncertainty is inherent in these CO2 estimations? (2) Where does the uncertainty come from and how can it be mitigated? (3) How can the uncertainty be communicated to enable decisions towards net zero targets?
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- Lunn, Rebecca (Principal Investigator) Giesekam, Jannik (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator) Stillings, Mark (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2027
- Roberts, Jen (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
- Yang, Shangtong (Principal Investigator) Lunn, Rebecca (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2025
- Roberts, Jen (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2027
Contact
Professor
Zoe
Shipton
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: zoe.shipton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3183