ABOUT US

The Zeroverse team has more than 4 decades of experience in academia across 3 continents. We are leaders in sustainability action in the academic sector. We know the common challenges that academia faces and how to overcome them. Plus, we’re continually researching and tracking best practices and solutions - keeping our content fresh. 

We operate in the greenest way possible. Zeroverse is a proud member of the SME Climate Hub, a global initiative that empowers small to medium sized companies to take climate action and build more resilient businesses. Through the SME Climate Hub, we commit to lowering our impact on the environment through authentic action, halving our emissions by 2030. In making the commitment, we have joined the United Nations Race to Zero campaign.​

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​Kate Whitfield

Founder & Trainer 

Kate has worked in the academic sector for almost 20 years. She has experience as a lab technician, clinical trials coordinator, and programme manager as well as supervising students. Her research on the carbon footprint of the academic sector is published in peer-reviewed journals.

She studied decarbonisation strategies with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and is a certified My Green Lab Ambassador. In 2022, Kate became an accredited Carbon Literacy trainer. Kate's first job was with the municipal recycling service.

​Teun Bousema

Advisor

Teun is a full professor in the epidemiology of tropical infectious diseases and has worked in this field for over 15 years. He has coordinated several large malaria studies in African settings, contributed to international policy guidelines and is a member of the prestigious Academia Europeae.

In addition to his work on infectious diseases, he has initiated several initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of academic research, ranging from energy saving initiatives to thoughtful academic travel and the role of funders in incentivising sustainable research practices.

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Zeroverse gives credit to the original authors of the resources included in our courses and on our website. For our own materials, we use a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means that if you share Zeroverse materials, please attribute the original authors of the sources and Zeroverse.org. E.g. original work from X via Zeroverse.org, CC-BY license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CONTACT US

Email: kate.whitfield@zeroverse.org