Lesley Anne Glover#
| Membership Number: | 3921 |
| Membership type: | HONORARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ims/profiles/l.a.glover |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Chair Science and Technology Advisory Council to the President
- 2012 - 2014 European Commission, first Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the EC J Barroso
- 2006 - 2011 Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland, advising the Scottish First Minister
- since 2001 Aberdeen University (UK), Professor, Chair in Molecular & Cell Biology
- 1998-2001 Reader in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen
- 1994-1998 Senior Lecturer Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen
- 1983-1994 Lector in Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein synthesis
- Biological sensors (biosensors)
- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
- Luminescence of proteins
- Molecular and Cell Biology
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2014 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2013 the 19th most powerful woman in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4
- 2008 Woman of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
- 2009 Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Royal Society of Arts
- 2006 CBE (Commander of the British Empire)
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2001-2011 Council member of the Natural Environment Research Council
- 2009-2011 chaired the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences
- 1995 Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology
- Honorary positions at the Macaulay and Rowett Institutes and at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
