The Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering has nominated Professor Dame Ann Dowling FREng FRS, Head of the Department of Engineering, as its Presidential candidate. Upon election, Dowling would become the Academy’s first female President and serve a term of five years.
The Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering has nominated Professor Dame Ann Dowling FREng FRS, Head of the Department of Engineering, as its Presidential candidate. Upon election, Dowling would become the Academy’s first female President and serve a term of five years.
A world authority on combustion and acoustics, Dowling became a Cambridge research fellow in 1977 and has remained at the university ever since, including visiting research posts at MIT in 1999 and Caltech in 2001. She started her career as a mathematician but always wanted to pursue applied mathematics and did her PhD in engineering acoustics with Prof John Ffowcs Williams FREng, who led pioneering noise-reduction research on Concorde. She now leads research on efficient, low emission combustion for aero and industrial gas turbines and low noise vehicles, particularly aircraft and cars.
Her work in aeronautics and energy has been recognised by fellowships of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, and foreign associate membership of both the US National Academy of Engineering and the French Academy of Sciences
Academy President Sir John Parker GBE FREng said “I am delighted that Dame Ann has been nominated for election as the next President of this Academy. Her wide research and policy expertise and her leadership of the engineering department of one of the world’s top universities will be a great asset to the Academy in the years to come.”
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