Dr Samuel Krevor, Imperial College London

Assessments by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that the widespread storage of CO₂ in deep subsurface sedimentary rocks is needed to avoid dangerous climate change. Storage rates are projected to be very large by 2050 – gigatonnes per year – corresponding with the rates at which oil is produced today. Dr Krevor aims to tackle two research themes key to the rapid scaleup of CO₂ storage over the coming decades. The first theme concerns the challenges in the accurate modelling of the flow and trapping of CO₂ injected underground. The second theme concerns the modelling of scaleup trajectories for regional and global deployment of gigatonne-scale CO₂ storage.