Lesley Yellowlees
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Professor Lesley Yellowlees CBE, FRSE |
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Professor Lesley Yellowlees in 2014
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Lesley Jane Yellowlees 1953 (age 63–64) London, UK |
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| Spouse(s) | Peter W. Yellowlees | ||
| Children | Sarah, Mark | ||
| Website | www |
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| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh | ||
| Thesis | Spectro-electrochemical studies on luminescent complexes (1983) | ||
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Lesley Jane Yellowlees, CBE, FRSE, HonFRSC (born 1953) is a British inorganic chemist and was the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2012–14.
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. She completed her higher education at the University of Edinburgh, gaining a BSc in Chemical Physics in 1975, and PhD in Inorganic Electrochemistry in 1983. She was the only woman graduate in her undergraduate class.
Her first job was as an administrator in the National Health Service, but after moving to Brisbane, Australia, with her husband, she went into electrochemistry research, and subsequently worked in the University of Queensland, and in University of Glasgow, returning to the University of Edinburgh to do a PhD on solar cell chemistry, becoming a demonstrator in 1986 and a lecturer in 1989 and becoming Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in 2005. She was the first female head of chemistry in the university. She is also Vice-Principal of the University (again the first female one) and Head of the College of Science and Engineering. She is married to Peter W. Yellowlees, a Chartered Accountant, and they have two children.
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