Molly Stevens

British academic

Dame Molly Stevens DBE FRS FInstP FCGI FREng FRSC FIMMM FRSB FRPharmS
Molly Stevens speaking in 2015
Born	Molly Morag Stevens May 1974 Nottingham, England
Alma mater	University of Bath (BPharm) University of Nottingham (PhD)
Awards	Woolmer Lecture (2013) Kabiller Young Investigator Award (2019) FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award (2021)^[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Regenerative medicine Biosensing Tissue engineering^[2]
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	Atomic force microscopy studies of biomolecular adhesion and mechanics (2000)

Molly Stevens's voice from the BBC programme Life Scientific, 15 November 2011.^[3] Problems playing this file? See media help.
Website	https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/stevens-group

Professor Dame Molly Morag Stevens DBE, FRS, FInstP, FCGI, FREng, FRSC, FIMMM, FRSB, FRPharmS^[4] (born May 1974) is Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. She is Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery and a member of the Department for Engineering Science and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

Early life and education

Stevens was born in Nottingham.^[5] She studied at the University of Bath, where she graduated with a First Class Honours BPharm degree in 1995. She subsequently obtained a PhD degree from the University of Nottingham in 2000 for research using atomic force microscopy to investigate adhesion and mechanics.^[6]^[7]

Career and research

Following her doctoral research, she moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Imperial College in 2004 then University of Oxford in 2023.

In 2004 Stevens founded The Stevens Group, a multidisciplinary research group of bioengineers, materials scientists, chemists, biologists, physicists and surgeons.^[8]

Honours and awards

2010: In 2010 she received the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) award for creativity in polymer science,^[9] the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal^[10] and the Norman Heatley Award for interdisciplinary research from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).^[11] She serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano.^[12]

2013: 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.^[13]

2018: She was appointed a trustee of the National Gallery of the United Kingdom in 2018.^[14] She won the 2018 Institute of Physics (IOP) Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize. In 2019 Stevens was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States^[15] and received the Kabiller Young Investigator Award.^[16] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2020.^[17]

2021: In 2021 Stevens was the recipient of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) EMBO Women in Science Award.^[18]

2023: In 2023 Stevens was awarded The Novo Nordisk Prize for her pioneering work in innovative bioengineering approaches.^[19]^[20]

2024: In 2024 Stevens was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to medicine.^[21]

References

^ "Plenary Lectures".
^ Molly Stevens publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ "Molly Stevens". Life Scientific. 15 November 2011. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ [1] - website of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
^ "Plenary Speaker: Prof Molly Stevens, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK" (PDF). 10th World Congress of Engineering. September 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
^ Stevens, Molly Morag (2000). Atomic force microscopy studies of biomolecular adhesion and mechanics. nottingham.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 53555402. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.342023.
^ Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS - website The Stevens Group
^ "The Stevens Group". The Stevens Group. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ IUPAC website, March 2014
^ IOM3 Award winners 2010, 2010
^ RSC 2010 award winners, 2010
^ ACS Nano.
^ "Previous Karen Burt Award Winners | Women's Engineering Society". www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
^ "Prime Minister Appoints 2 Trustees to the National Gallery". GOV.UK.
^ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 Foreign Members". Retrieved 5 March 2019.
^ "Molly Stevens of Imperial College London receives Kabiller Young Investigator Award". Northwestern University.
^ "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
^ "Molly Stevens receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2021 – Press releases – EMBO". 10 February 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
^ "Professor Molly Stevens wins 2023 Novo Nordisk Prize | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ "Professor Dame Molly Stevens receives the Novo Nordisk Prize". www.dpag.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N9.