Speakers

Sharon Ashbrook is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, UK. Born in Liverpool, she completed a DPhil (2001) at the University of Oxford, before being awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2003, which she held at the University of Cambridge. From 2005, she was appointed an RCUK Academic Fellow in Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, and was promoted to Reader in 2009 and Professor in 2013. She has published ~215 papers using NMR spectroscopy to investigate structure, disorder and chemical reactivity in inorganic solids. She was awarded the RSC Harrison Prize (2004), Marlow Award (2011), Corday Morgan Prize (2015) and Bourke-Liversidge Award (2021), and the RSE Lord Kelvin Prize (2023). She became an elected Fellow of the RSE in 2016, and held a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2015). She has an interest in the promotion of women in STEM, co-authoring two booklets on academic careers. She was awarded a Suffrage Science Award in 2017.