The Baroness Brown of Cambridge | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2023 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 30 October 2015 Life peerage | |
| Vice-Chancellor of Aston University | |
| In office 2006–2016 | |
| Preceded by | Michael T. Wright |
| Succeeded by | Alec Cameron |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Julia Elizabeth King 11 July 1954 Paddington, London, England |
| Political party | Crossbench |
| Spouse |
Colin William Brown (m. 1984) |
| Residence | Cambridge |
| Education | Godolphin and Latymer School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | King Review of low-carbon cars |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Fracture mechanisms in embrittled alloy steels (1979[dead link]) |
| Doctoral students | James Marrow David Knowles |
Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, DBE, FRS, FRAeS, FInstP, CEng, FREng (born 11 July 1954[1]) is a British engineer and a crossbench member of the House of Lords, where she chairs the Select Committee on Science and Technology.[2] She is the incumbent chair of the Carbon Trust and the Henry Royce Institute,[3] and was the vice-chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.[4][5][6]
- ^ Anon (2017). "Brown of Cambridge". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.41612. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Science and Technology Committee (Lords)". Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "Baroness Brown of Cambridge". Henry Royce Institute. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ Julia King ORCID 0000-0002-8563-7646
- ^ Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Davis, C. L.; King, J. E. (1994). "Cleavage initiation in the intercritically reheated coarse-grained heat-affected zone: Part I. Fractographic evidence". Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 25 (3): 563–573. Bibcode:1994MMTA...25..563D. doi:10.1007/BF02651598. ISSN 1073-5623. S2CID 55557456.