Emily Shuckburgh

Director of Cambridge Zero & Professor of Environmental Data Science, University of Cambridge

Professor Emily Shuckburgh CBE is a world-leading climate scientist and science communicator, who is the 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 leads the UK national research funding body’s (UKRI) Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER) and is a director of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration (CLR).

Professor Shuckburgh worked for more than a decade at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) where her work included leading a UK national research programme on the Southern Ocean and its role in climate.

Honorary Fellow of the Energy Institute, and Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey, of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), and of Darwin College, Cambridge, Emily has also undertaken research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and École Normale Supérieure (ENS). She advises on climate to the UK Government and is a Friend of COP26.

Emily is co-author with HM King Charles III and Tony Juniper of the Ladybird Book: Climate Change and was awarded an OBE in 2016 and a CBE in 2025, for services to science and the public communication of science.