Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE is a world-leading climate scientist and science communicator, who is Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge’s ambitious climate change initiative.
Shuckburgh is a mathematician and Professor of Environmental Data Science at Cambridge’s Department of Computer Science and Technology (CST). She is academic director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science and is co-director of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration.
Previously Professor Shuckburgh was director of the Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the Study of Environmental Risks and she worked for more than a decade at the British Antactic Survey, where her work included leading a national climate research programme. Emily has also undertaken research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and École Normale Supérieure (ENS).
Emily is a Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey, of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), and of Darwin College, Cambridge, and an Hononary Fellow of the Energy Institute.
Emily is co-author with HM King Charles III and Tony Juniper of the Ladybird Book: Climate Change and was awarded an OBE for services to science and the public communication of science in 2016.