Dame Carol Robinson#
| Membership Number: | 5207 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/dame-carol-robinson |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7829-5505 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery at Oxford
- Royal Society Reseacher Professor at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford
- 2009 Professorial Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford
- 2009 Dr Lee’s Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 2006 - 2016 Royal Society Research Professorship
- 2003 - 2009 Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
- 2001 - 2009 Professor of Mass Spectrometry, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1999 - 2001 Titular Professor, University of Oxford
- 1998 - 2001 Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 1995 - 2001 Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Oxford
- 1991 - 1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Prof. C. M. Dobson FRS
Fields of Scholarship
- Lipid binding to membrane proteins
- Mass spectrometry
- Membrane protein biophysics
Honours and Awards
- Memberships
- 2023 Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2021 International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2017 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- 2018 - 2020 President of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry
- Awards
- 2023 John B. Fenn Award for Distinguished Contribution to Mass Spectrometry
- 2022 Royal Medal A from the Royal Society
- 2022 Academy Prize from the Royal Academy of Belgium
- 2022 European Chemistry Gold Medal from the European Chemistry Society (EuChemS)
- 2022 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
- 2020 Othmer Gold Medal from the Science History Institute
- 2019 Royal Medal A from the Royal Society
- 2019 Stein and Moore Award from the Protein Society
- 2019 Novozymes Prize from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
- 2018 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry from the American Chemical Society
- 2017 Hans Krebs Medal from the FEBS
- 2016 Astra Zeneca Award from the Biochemical Society
- 2016 Torbern Bergmann Award from the Swedish Chemical Society
- 2015 Havinga Medal from the Havinga Foundation
- 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award
- 2014 Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang Prize from the Carlsberg Research Center
- 2014 Thomson Medal Award from the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation
- 2013 Anatrace Award for Membrane Proteins from the Biophysical Society USA
- 2012 Distinguished Achievement in Proteomic Sciences from HUPO
- 2011 Interdisciplinary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2011 Woman of the Year Award from FEBS/EMBO
- 2011 Aston Medal from the British Mass Spectrometry Society
- 2010 Davy Medal from the Royal Society
- 2010 Prelog Medal from ETH, Zurich
- 2008 Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society
