Hannah Wakeling
Biography
Dr. Hannah Wakeling is a postdoctoral researcher in particle accelerator environmental sustainability at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Physics, at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span the intersection of particle accelerator research with sustainability. She performed a Life Cycle Assessment and developed a sustainability strategy for the proposed future ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source. She leads efforts to provide tools and sustainability guidelines tailored to the fields of accelerator and high energy physics research. She consults and collaborates with many sustainability projects including being a co-organiser of the Sustainable High Energy Physics Conference 2024, 2025 and 2026, being a member of the Laboratory Directors Group Sustainability Working Group, being a member of the recently funded EPITA Horizon-Europe project Work Package 2 (Strategic Communication, Outreach and Sustainability), being a member of the Sustainable HECAP+ initiative, and through being a 2026 IUPAP Accelerator Engagement Ambassador.
Plenary Talk
From direct impacts to indirect outcomes, our scientific research can have a multitude of effects on society, the economy, and the environment. With the growing climate crisis, we as scientists should be embedding environmental sustainability into our research from the top down and the bottom up. However, due to the complexity of our research and its landscape, doing so isn’t straightforward. This talk aims to give an overview of tangible efforts, tools and strategies that the fields of high energy physics and accelerators have been developing in recent years, that could be adapted to other fields of research to reduce their environmental impacts.