Frances Saunders

Dame Frances Carolyn Saunders DBE CB (born June 28, 1954 ) is a British physicist.

From 2013 to 2015 she was President of the Institute of Physics . In 2018 she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

After attending the girls' school Portsmouth High School in Southsea , Saunders studied physics at Nottingham University ( BSc 1975) and received a PhD in 1984 with a thesis on liquid crystals .

She did research at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (now part of the Defense Research Agency ) and was a civil servant in the UK Office of Science and Technology , now part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills .

From 2007 to 2012 Saunders headed the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl).

Web links

• Dr Frances Saunders. Former chief executive of DSTL and president of the IOP. In: List of honorary fellows. IOP , accessed April 23, 2019 . 
• Dr Frances Saunders CB. In: Celebrating leading women in engineering. Royal Academy of Engineering , accessed April 23, 2019 (English, interview). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Five IOP members receive Queen's Birthday Honors. IOP , June 11, 2018, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
2. ^ Order of the British Empire: Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In: Queen's List BD18. 2018, accessed on April 23, 2019 (English, p. 17). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Frances Saunders prepares for IOP presidency. IOP , July 20, 2013, accessed April 23, 2019 .