
January 29, 2025
About the Speaker:
Professor Sarah Thompson is the Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of York, where she leads the University’s Transformational Initiative on Building Industry Engagement and Income. She has previously held the roles of Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Sciences and Head of the Department of Physics. She received both her BSc and PhD from the Department of Physics at the University of Durham and held two independent fellowships from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council at both Durham and the University of York, where she is now a Professor in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology. Her research interests are in nanomagnetism and nanoscale thermal transport. A Fellow of the Institute of Physics, she served as its Vice President for Science and Innovation from 2015-2019. She has also won awards from the Institute of Physics and the British Association for science outreach. In 2012, she was awarded an MBE for services to Higher Education.
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