Dr Emily Cox is a researcher in environmental policy and social psychology. She is an expert on technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, focusing on social science dimensions such as public perceptions, policy, and ethics. She works on a Leverhulme Trust project on the public acceptability of negative emissions technologies, where she studies embed principles of public engagement and responsible innovation in technology development. She is also an expert on energy security, with a PhD in the security of low-carbon electricity systems from SPRU at the University of Sussex. Emily works for the UK Energy Research Centre, researching the social science dimensions of resilience in energy systems. Her interests are in the psychology of disruptive events such as blackouts. She works with energy system engineers to incorporate ideas of social resilience into low-carbon infrastructure development.

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