Julia Higgins
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Dame Julia Stretton Higgins Vorlage:Post-nominals (née Downes; born 1 July 1942) is a polymer scientist. Since 1976 she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where (since 2007) she is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Education
Higgins was educated at the Ursuline High School, Wimbledon and Somerville College, Oxford where she was awarded Master of Arts and DPhil degrees.[7][8][9]
Career
Higgins chaired the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) from 2008–2012. She is also a former chair (1998–2003) of the Athena Project, which aims for the advancement of women in science, engineering and technology (SET) in Higher Education. Between 2003 and 2007, she was also chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Higgins was president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers 2002–3, and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 2003–4. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995[8] and was its foreign secretary 2001–06.[8]
She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Academy of Engineering,[10] and the City and Guilds of London Institute, of which she is Vice-President. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of Somerville College, Oxford.[11]
She was appointed a CBE in 1996 before being named a dame in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours list.[12] Dame Julia replaced Professor Adrian Smith FRS as ACME Chair in September 2008 when Adrian became Director General of Science and Research at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. She holds honorary degrees from a number of UK universities and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her scientific work has concentrated on the investigation of polymers with neutron scattering.[2] She co-authored a monograph on that field (Higgins & Benoit 1997).[13]
In April 2003 she became Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She was succeeded by John Armitt on 1 April 2007. In June 2006 Higgins was appointed Principal of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. The Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College is one of the largest in the UK, comprising nine departments with 1,000 staff, over 4,200 students and an annual turnover of around £80 million. She is a member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board, president of the ESPCI ParisTech Scientific Committee.[14]
She is a Patron of WISE, a charitable organisation that encourages young women to pursue careers in Science, Engineering and Construction.[15] as well as a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.[16]
She served as President of the Institute of Physics from 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2019.[17]
Awards and honours
Higgins was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. Her nomination reads: Vorlage:Centered pull quote
Other awards and honours include: Vorlage:Div col
- Principal of the Faculty of Engineering (2006–7)
- Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (2003-April 2007)
- Trustee, National Gallery until 2010[18]
- Trustee, Daphne Jackson Trust
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering[10]
- Foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States
- Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2003
- President, British Association for the Advancement of Science from 2003 until 2004.
- Received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2000[19]
- She is a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States. She was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2001 Birthday Honours. In March 2010, the UKRC announced Professor Higgins as one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology.[20]
- A portrait of her by Tess Barnes was unveiled in June 2014 at Imperial College.[21]
- In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[10]
- She was Chair of the Royal Society's 2008 State of the Nation Report Steering Group for 'Science and mathematics education 14-19'.[22]
- In 2016, she was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on The Life Scientific.[9]
- Awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 "for her sustained excellence in polymer engineering".[23]
References
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- ↑ Dame Julia Higgins profile. Abgerufen am 18. April 2014.
- ↑ Professor Dame Julia Higgins' profile web.archive.org Fehler bei Vorlage * Parametername unbekannt (Vorlage:Webarchiv): "date" Fehler bei Vorlage:Webarchiv: Genau einer der Parameter 'wayback', 'webciteID', 'archive-today', 'archive-is' oder 'archiv-url' muss angegeben werden. Fehler bei Vorlage:Webarchiv: enWP-Wert im Parameter 'url'., Ingenia, September 2007
- ↑ Symposium Opening speech by Julia Higgins 2008 auf YouTube
- ↑ The Royal Society's The Vision Committee's Vision for the future of Science and Maths Education auf YouTube, chaired by Julia Higgins
- ↑ Vorlage:Cite thesis
- ↑ a b c Life Stories in association with the British Library. In: Sounds.bl.uk. Abgerufen am 1. Dezember 2016.
- ↑ a b Jim Al-Khalili: Julia Higgins on polymers, interview on The Life Scientific. In: bbc.co.uk. BBC, 2016.
- ↑ a b c List of Fellows. Royal Academy of Engineering, abgerufen am 27. Oktober 2014.
- ↑ Professor Dame Julia Higgins. Abgerufen am 21. April 2018.
- ↑ The Queen's birthday Honours, 2001. Abgerufen im 17 April 2014
- ↑ Somerville College Oxford web-site. In: Some.ox.ac.uk. Abgerufen am 1. Dezember 2016.
- ↑ ESPCI Paris : Conseil scientifique international. In: Espci.fr. Archiviert vom am 20. Juli 2011; abgerufen am 10. März 2017.
- ↑ Archived copy. Archiviert vom am 31. Dezember 2008; abgerufen am 22. Dezember 2008.
- ↑ Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In: Sciencecampaign.org.uk. Archiviert vom am 28. August 2010; abgerufen am 11. Februar 2011.
- ↑ Dame Julia Higgins to be the IOP's next president-elect. In: Iop.org. Abgerufen am 10. Juli 2015.
- ↑ Board of Trustees. National Gallery, 2010, abgerufen am 17. April 2014.
- ↑ Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates. In: 1.hw.ac.uk. Abgerufen am 4. April 2016.
- ↑ Archived copy. Archiviert vom am 21. Juli 2011; abgerufen am 19. November 2010.
- ↑ Imperial unveils historic portrait of leading female scientist. In: 3.imperial.ac.uk. Abgerufen am 10. März 2017.
- ↑ State of the Nation: Science and mathematics education 14–19. In: royalsociety.org. 2008, abgerufen am 1. Januar 2020.
- ↑ Sir Frank Whittle Medal. Abgerufen am 14. September 2020.
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Academics of Imperial College London
- British chemists
- British people of Irish descent
- British women academics
- British women scientists
- Presidents of the Institute of Physics
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Female Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Presidents of the British Science Association
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
- Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford
- 21st-century women engineers
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