Molly Morag Stevens is Professor of Biomedical Materials and regenerative medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.She Grows Bones
''Wired'', November 2011
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Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

, July, 2013Imperial College webpage for Molly Stevens
March 2014

Education

Stevens studied for her bachelor's degree at the University of Bath, where she graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacy. She then gained a PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2000 for research using

atomic force microscopy Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the op ...

to investigate adhesion and mechanics.

Career and research

Following her PhD, she moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Imperial College in 2004.

Awards and honours

In 2010 she received the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) award for creativity in polymer science,IUPAC website
March 2014 the

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is a UK engineering institution whose activities encompass the whole materials cycle, from exploration and extraction, through characterisation, processing, forming, finishing and applicatio ...

Rosenhain MedalIOM3 Award winners 2010
2010 and the Norman Heatley Award for interdisciplinary research from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).RSC 2010 award winners
2010 She serves as an Associate Editor of ''

ACS Nano ''ACS Nano'' is a monthly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal, first published in August 2007 by the American Chemical Society. The current editor in chief is Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University). The journal publishes original research ...

''. In 2013 she presented the Woolmer Lecture of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Karen Burt Memorial Award from the Women's Engineering Society, given to the best newly chartered woman in engineering, applied science or IT. She was appointed a trustee of the National Gallery of the United Kingdom in 2018. She won the 2018 Institute of Physics (IOP)

Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications. It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for PhD thesis submissions. Bilateral awards * The Max B ...

. In 2019 Stevens was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States and received the Kabiller Young Investigator Award. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2020.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Molly Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Bath Alumni of the University of Nottingham British bioengineers Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Women bioengineers Academics of Imperial College London Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering People associated with the National Gallery, London 21st-century women engineers Female Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining