Lesley Anne Glover#
| Membership Number: | 3921 |
| Membership type: | HONORARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 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
- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
- Biological sensors (biosensors)
- Molecular and Cell Biology
- Luminescence of proteins
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2021 President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 2015 Promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her role as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission and "for services to Science"
- 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
- 2009 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours in recognition of her service as Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland and "for services to environmental science"
- 2009 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
- 2009 Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Royal Society of Arts
- 2008 Woman of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
- 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
- Honorary doctorates and fellowships
- 1992 Honorary Research Fellow, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen
- 2002 Honorary Research Fellow, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen
- 2008 Honorary DSc, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- 2009 - 2012 Honorary Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- 2010 Honorary DSc, Open University, UK
- 2012 Honorary DSc, University of Strathclyde, UK, Honorary Fellow, Microbiology Society, UK and Honorary Fellowship, Scottish Agricultural College, UK
- Honorary DSc, Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Honorary DSc, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
- 2013 Honorary DSc, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2014 Honorary DSc, University of Glasgow, UK
- Honorary DSc, University of Abertay, UK
- Honorary DSc, University of Exeter, UK
- Honorary DSc, Cardiff University, UK
- Honorary DSc, Ben Gurion University, Israel
- 2015 Honorary DSc, Waterloo University, Canada
- 2017 Honorary DSc, University of York, UK
