Julia Higgins
Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College, London; UK
Professor Julia Higgins was Scientist in Residence during the first WKD symposium in 2006. She is a former Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of Great Britain. She has pioneered exploration of the responsibilities of being a scientist in the modern world and has been instrumental in bringing consideration of gender issues in European science to the political forefront. Julia Higgins has received numerous distinctions in recognition of her contributions as a public ambassador for science, She became a Dame of the British Empire in 2002, and a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2003.
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