Biography
Dr Weimu Xu is a postdoctoral researcher in iCRAG at Trinity College Dublin. Before this Dr Xu was a NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), where she led the development of scientific evidence in unconventional oil and gas in close engagement with academic and industrial partners, research councils and regulatory bodies, to ensure that policy-making is informed by robust and appropriate guidelines and evidence. Previously, she worked as a geophysicist in Shell China on exploration projects. Her PhD at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, funded by Shell International Exploration and Production B.V. (Netherlands), was to apply sedimentology and geochemical proxies to understand the fundamental processes related to hydrocarbon source rock formation during major environmental/climatic change events in the geological past
Role
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Earth System Change
Expertise
- Climate and Environment
