Professor Julia Race
Vice Dean (Academic)
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Personal statement
Prior to starting my academic career, I worked in industry for over 20 years, latterly in the pipeline industry for 7 years as an integrity consultant for GE Oil and Gas. In this role, I was responsible for providing fitness-for-purpose, remaining life and corrosion assessments for onshore and offshore pipelines. I have also worked as a materials engineer in the petrochemical and power generation industries involved with the operation, maintenance and design of chemical and power plant. My primary research interest, developed since my move to academia from industry, is in the use of pipeline infrastructure to deliver pathways to Net Zero – primarily in the transportation of carbon dioxide (CO2) for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes and hydrogen as a replacement for oil and gas in the energy mix. In this area my research topics have included: - material and specification requirements for CO2 and H2 pipelines, - techniques for conducting Quantitative Risk Assessments, including pipeline failure frequency and consequence analysis - hydraulic network design and developing system flexibility, techno-economics and wider economy impacts. My wider research interests include the modelling of structural damage and corrosion on structures, particularly relating to onshore and offshore energy infrastructure.
Publications
- Bridging the gap : organisational perceptions and adoption strategies for digital twins and geological hydrogen storage in the energy transition
- Yilmaz Ayse, O’Brien Sally, Thies Philipp, Das Prodip, Oterkus Erkan, Race Julia
- ASME 2025 44th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1115/omae2025-157379
- Balancing fidelity and computational efficiency in mooring system simulations for floating offshore wind turbines
- Glasspool Jonathan, Duarte Tiago, Race Julia, Venugopal Vengatesan, Pillai Ajit C
- ASME 2025 44th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1115/omae2025-155460
- Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK’s industry clusters
- Calvillo Christian, Katris Antonios, Race Julia, Corbett Hannah, Turner Karen
- Ecological Economics Vol 233 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108587
- The Wider Economic Benefits of Investing in UK CCUS
- Turner Karen, Katris Antonios, Race Julia, Corbett Hannah
- (2025)
- Offshore wind-to-hydrogen : the impact of intermittency on hydrogen production and transport
- Summers Eoghan, Race Julia, Mignard Dimitri, Tian Mi, Almoghayer Mohammed Alaa
- Proceedings of ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1115/omae2024-131833
- Strathclyde Engineering Scholars – equal outcomes for the most disadvantaged
- Salt Helen, Flockhart Gordon, Race Julia, Thomson Avril, Sypek Kaska
- Diversity Impact Programme Sharing our learning on improving diversity and inclusion in engineering higher education (2024) (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13367333
Professional Activities
- Ongoing meetings with OEUK, Scottish Government and Storegga
- Participant
- 1/2025
- Learner Station workshop - funded activity as part of British Council project between Strathclyde and Istanbul Technical University
- Organiser
- 29/4/2024
- The challenge of persisting labour supply shortages and constraints on decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters
- Speaker
- 8/3/2023
- Workshop with phase 1 CCUS cluster stakeholders
- Speaker
- 10/2/2022
- Meeting with colleagues from AECOM
- Recipient
- 2022
- Initial meeting wiht reprsentatives of the Wood Group
- Recipient
- 2022
Projects
- Strathclyde Engineering Scholars - Equal Outcomes for the most disadvantaged
- Sypek, Katarzyna (Principal Investigator) Flockhart, Gordon (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Thomson, Avril (Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2025 - 23-Jan-2025
- Permeation of Vintage Pipeline Materials in Hydrogen Environments - Phase 1
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Empowering Early Career Researchers to advance maritime decarbonisation in Indonesia (International Science Partnerships Fund Early Career Fellowship)
- Kurt, Rafet (Principal Investigator) Gunbeyaz, Sefer Anil (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Turan, Osman (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2026
- Hydrogen Training Course
- Bhagavathy, Priya (Principal Investigator) Badakhsh, Arash (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- Green Hydrogen Integration at Sullom Voe (EETF Hydrogen Innovation Scheme)
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Li, Jun (Co-investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Roy, Sudipta (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Labour market and other wider economy challenges in decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters [LAB-CLUSTER] (IDRIC Wave 2)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Corbett, Hannah (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Julia
Race
Vice Dean (Academic)
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: julia.race@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3303