Julia King
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Professor Julia King CBE FREng is the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University.
Prof King graduated from the University of Cambridge (New Hall) with a degree in natural sciences. Her PhD, also from Cambridge, was in materials. She was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham from 1980 to 1987, then at Cambridge from 1987 to 1994, when she moved to Rolls Royce where she held a number of senior positions. She was appointed chief executive of the Institute of Physics in September 2002. From September 2004 to December 2006 she was Principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College London, after which she joined Aston University [1]
In March 2007, King was appointed by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, to lead the King Review into vehicle and fuel technologies that, over the next 25 years, could help to reduce carbon emissions from road transport[2]. The interim analytical report was published in October 2007[3], and the final recommendations in March 2008. The King Review was the subject of Professor King's inaugural lecture at Aston University in April 2008.[4]
King was also chairman of the defence science advisory council of the Ministry of Defence.
She received her CBE for services to materials engineering in the 1999 Queen's birthday honours.
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