Dame Molly Morag Stevens is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the

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's 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. She studied at the University of Bath, where she graduated with a First Class Honours BPharm degree. She subsequently obtained a PhD degree from the

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for research using atomic force microscopy to investigate adhesion and mechanics.

Career and research

Following her doctoral research, she moved to

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before joining Imperial College in 2004 then

in 2023. In 2004 Stevens founde
The Stevens Group
a multidisciplinary research group of bioengineers, materials scientists, chemists, biologists, physicists and surgeons.

Honours and awards

2010: In 2010 she received the

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(IUPAC) award for creativity in polymer science,IUPAC website
March 2014 the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain MedalIOM3 Award winners 2010
2010 and the Norman Heatley Award for interdisciplinary research from the

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(RSC).RSC 2010 award winners
2010 She serves as an Associate Editor of '' ACS Nano''. 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. 2018: She was appointed a trustee of the National Gallery of the United Kingdom in 2018. She won the 2018 Institute of Physics (IOP) Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize. In 2019 Stevens was elected a foreign member of the

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of the

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and received the Kabiller Young Investigator Award. She was elected a

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(FRS) in 2020. 2021: In 2021 Stevens was the recipient of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) EMBO Women in Science Award. 2023: In 2023 Stevens was awarded The Novo Nordisk Prize for her pioneering work in innovative bioengineering approaches. 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.

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