Professor Molly Stevens PhD, FREng FRS

Professor Stevens is the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences at Imperial College London (www.stevensgroup.org). She also holds a part-time appointment as Professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Her group has published over 350 peer-reviewed publications and are very active in the translation of innovations to impact patient care through spinouts, industrial partnerships and social venture routes. Professor Stevens is Fellow of 8 UK Societies including the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering and is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. She has been the recipient of over 30 prestigious international awards, including the Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal (2020), ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry (2019), Surfaces and Interfaces Award (Royal Society of Chemistry 2019), Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics, 2018), and the Harrison Medal (Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 2017). Molly is a passionate advocate for the democratisation of medicine and accessibility of healthcare to all.