Lesley Yellowlees

Lesley Jane Yellowlees, (born 1953) is a British inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry, Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Yellowlees was also elected as the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2012–14 and was the first woman to hold that role .RSC News, August 2012, pp 12–13 "Lesley Yellowlees"

Early life and education

Yellowlees was born in 1953 in London, moving to Edinburgh at the age of 9 and attending St Hilary's Girls' School. Her father worked for Rank Hovis McDougall, and she has two sisters.''The Herald'' 2 July 2012
Rebecca McQuilllan "You've got to have support because work is not always going to go well She completed her higher education at the University of Edinburgh, gaining a BSc in Chemical Physics in 1975, and PhD in Inorganic Electrochemistry in 1982. Yellowlees was the only woman graduate in her undergraduate class, graduating with a first. Continuing on from this Yellowlees began her postdoctoral research in the University of Glasgow in 1983.

Career and research

Lesley Yellowlees' first job was as an administrator in the National Health Service, but after moving to Brisbane, she went into electrochemical researchMRC Clinical Sciences Centre ''Suffrage Science 2013''
9–13 Lesley Yellowlees and Molly Stevens review successes in science while raising families subsequently worked in the University of Queensland. Returning to the University of Edinburgh, to do a PhD on solar cell chemistry, Yellowlees became a demonstrator in 1986, a lecturer in 1989Edit
(University of Edinburgh alumni magazine) June 2011 p 24 "Master and Apprentice" and was appointed Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in 2005. She was the first woman to be appointed head of chemistry in the university. And is also vice-principal of the university and head of the College of Science and Engineering.

Honours and awards

Yellowlees was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2005 and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.Professor Yellowlees
and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.www.ed.ac.uk
University of Edinburgh "Professor Lesley Yellowlees MBE FRSC FRSE FInstP"

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