Prof Dame Ann Dowling, DBE

President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

One of the main reasons Dame Ann Dowling was inspired to pursue a career in engineering was the difference she believed it could make to the world. Beginning her career as a mathematician, as a mechanical engineer she has primarily focused on combustion, acoustics, aeronautics and energy, specialising in the reduction of vehicle and aircraft noise. In 1998 Dowling became the University of Cambridge’s first female head of the Department of Engineering, one of the most esteemed engineering departments in the UK, and she was made a fellow of the Royal Academy in 2003. She has held visiting posts at MIT and Caltech and was listed in BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour as one of the 100 most influential women in the country. She was made a dame for her services to science in 2007.

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