Emily Cox was a researcher on responsible innovation and societal engagement at CO2RE, as well as a researcher in environmental policy and social psychology at Cardiff University and the University of Oxford. She is an expert on technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and her research focused on social science dimensions such as public perceptions, policy and ethics. Her work aimed to embed principles of public engagement and responsible innovation in technology development. She researched public attitudes to negative emissions technologies, and also published papers on the ethics and policy of CO2 removal, ocean-based technologies, and the social and psychological impacts of major disruptive events. She was affiliated with numerous research centres examining energy infrastructures and carbon dioxide removal, and led a project looking at public perceptions of new renewable energy technologies. Emily was a part-time lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University, and previously taught MSc Climate Change and Energy Policy at the University of Sussex.