Since 2010, Zickfeld has been conducting research as an associate professor of climate science at the Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia.[1][2] Her research involves various aspects of climate change, including mitigation strategies such as negative emission technologies.[3][4][8][9] She was one of two Canadian authors, and one of 91 authors, on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15).[7][8][3][4][5][6]