Jane Francis
| Dame Jane Francis | |
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| Born | Jane Elizabeth Francis October 1956 |
| Nationality | Britain |
| Fields | Palaeoclimatology |
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| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Thesis | The fossil forests of the basal Purbeck formation (upper jurassic) of Dorset, Southern England (1982) |
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Website Jane Francis at British Antarctic Survey |
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Dame Jane Elizabeth Francis, DCMG is the Director of the British Antarctic Survey. She previously worked as Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds where she also was Dean of the Faculty of Environment. In 2002 she was the fourth female to receive the Polar Medal for outstanding contribution to British polar research.
Francis received both her undergraduate degree in Geology and her PhD from the University of Southampton.
Francis was a NERC research student in geology/biology at Southampton University from 1979 until 1982. She continued on as a NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bedford College, London, until 1984. She was appointed to a position as Palaeobotanist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), from 1984–1986.
For five years Francis was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Larry Frakes at the University of Adelaide. In 1991 she accepted a position as a lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds UK; she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996. In 2002, she was awarded the Polar Medal, becoming only the fourth woman in history to receive the award.
She was promoted to Professor of Palaeoclimatology in the School of Earth and Environment and was the Director for the Centre for Polar Science at the University of Leeds, before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Environment in 2008. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Leeds. On 1 October 2013 Professor Francis took up her post as Director of the British Antarctic Survey, becoming the first woman Director of the institution.
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