Paul G Leahy is a Senior Lecturer in Wind Energy at University College Cork and a Funded Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland MAREI Centre for Marine, Climate and Energy research. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University College Cork/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in 2001. He is a Principal Investigator on several research projects, including Re-Wind. Re-Wind is a transdisciplinary circular economy project aiming to generate sustainable repurposed products from decommissioned composite material wind turbine blades. He has acted as a national expert reviewer for the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN, 2010) and the Second Order Draft of the Special Report SR1.5 on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (2018). He is an Associate Editor of the journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. He has also been appointed an expert reviewer for the ULYSSES Ireland–France programme of the Irish Research Council in 2018 and 2019. His research interests include wind energy; energy storage; impacts of climate change; and greenhouse gas emissions measurement and modelling.