Julia Goodfellow
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Professor Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow, DBE
Order of the British Empire
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, FMedSci, FInstP
Institute of Physics
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 (nee Lansdall, born 1 July 1951) is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent
University of Kent
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She completed her undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Bristol
University of Bristol
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 and completed a PhD in biophysics at the Open University Research Unit in Oxford. She began her career at Birkbeck College in 1995 as Professor of Biomolecular Science. .

In 1972 she married Peter Goodfellow
Peter Goodfellow
Peter Neville Goodfellow FRS is a British geneticist, former Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge 1992-1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992....

; they have one son and one daughter

In 2002 she was appointed CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is a UK Research Council and NDPB and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience...

, which funds scientific research projects at British universities.

Affiliations

  • STEMnet
  • Daphne Jackson Trust
  • John Innes Foundation
  • East Malling Trust
  • British Science Association
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