Professor Dame Lynn Gladden DBE
Chair of Judges
Professor Lynn Gladden is Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge University. A physicist, chemist and chartered engineer, Gladden studied at Bristol and Cambridge. Today she leads activities at the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, an international centre of excellence in applying magnetic resonance imaging to chemical engineering. Gladden is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. In 2009 she was awarded a CBE for services to science.