Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge
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The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE, FREng, FRS |
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Julia King
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| Born | Julia Elizabeth King 11 July 1954 |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Fracture mechanisms in embrittled alloy steels (1979) |
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Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, DBE, FREng, FRS (born 11 July 1954) is a British engineer and crossbench member of the House of Lords, who was the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.
King was born on 11 July 1954. She was educated at Godolphin and Latymer Girls' School and New Hall, Cambridge, and graduated from Cambridge with a first degree in natural sciences in 1975, then with a research degree, also from Cambridge, in fracture mechanics, graduating PhD in 1978.
King continued at Cambridge as a Rolls-Royce research fellow for 2 years before taking a post as a lecturer at the University of Nottingham from 1980 to 1987. In 1987 she became the first Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow. She then returned to Cambridge, holding a series of research and teaching positions from 1987 to 1994. In 1994 she moved to Rolls Royce where she held a number of senior positions including Head of Materials, Managing Director of Fan Systems and Engineering Director of the Marine Business. She was appointed chief executive of the Institute of Physics in September 2002. From September 2004 to December 2006 she was Principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College London, after which she joined Aston University as Vice-Chancellor where she served until September 2016 when she was succeeded by Alec Cameron. King was appointed as Chair of STEM Learning Ltd in September 2016.
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