Principal Investigator
University of Oxford
Prof. Paul Shearing
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 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. He is a major user of synchrotron and neutron facilities, and founded the UK STFC Global Challenge network in Batteries and Electrochemical Devices.
Project Lead
University College London
Dr Julia Weaving
Julia has experience in batteries in a collaborative, industrial research environment as well as academia. She has worked extensively in lithium metal and lithium-ion technologies and is experienced in product development and prototyping. Julia has been technical lead on multi-disciplined projects developing battery technologies for electric vehicles and consumer electronics, working extensively with academic and industrial research groups to develop safer systems by investigating and understanding the root causes of cell failure under different abuse scenarios and implementing stringent cell screening methods. She has also worked on Li-ion battery recycling, from feasibility to pilot scale development as well as on sodium metal and sodium ion battery technologies.
Project Manager
University of Oxford
Mr Paul Carter-Bowman
Paul Carter-Bowman has worked in Higher Education Research Finance since 2007. He has been involved with project management of SafeBatt since its inception in April 2021, initially from UCL, and since August 2025 at the University of Oxford.
