Biography
Dr Weimu Xu is an Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. Before joining UCD, she received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship award (funded by the European Commission) whilst at Trinity College Dublin, working on Paleocene greenhouse climate and the effect of basalt weathering on carbon sequestration. Prior to that, she was an iCRAG (SFI Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences) postdoctoral researcher at TCD, exploring a novel negative carbon emission technology using enhanced plant mediated silicate weathering. Before moving to Ireland, she 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 advised policy makers on evidence-based policy making in energy and climate science. Previously, she worked as a geophysicist in Shell China on hydrocarbon exploration projects. She received her DPhil degree from the University of Oxford (UK), and Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Peking University (China).
Role
- Funded Investigator
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Earth System Change
Expertise
- Climate and Environment
