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LYNN Gladden has been made the University of Cambridge’s new pro–vice-chancellor for research.

Gladden is head of chemical engineering and biotechnology and the Shell professor of chemical engineering at Cambridge. In her new role, Gladden will be responsible for developing policy and strategies and supporting the vice-chancellor in providing institutional leadership for the university.

As well as being an IChemE Fellow, Gladden is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Engineers, and was awarded a CBE in January 2009. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1982 with a BSc in chemical physics, and completed her PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1987.

She currently heads up Cambridge’s Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, and has a particular interest in its uses in heterogeneous catalysis and oil recovery, and the terahertz region of the magnetic spectrum.

Gladden will take up her position on 1 January 2010.