Sheila Rowan (physicist)

Sheila Rowan

CBE FRS FRSE FInstP
Sheila Rowan; CBE FRS FRSE FInstP
	Sheila Rowan at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born	25 November 1969; Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Alma mater	University of Glasgow (BSc, PhD)
Awards	Philip Leverhulme Prize (2005); Hoyle Medal and Prize (2016); Suffrage Science award (2017);
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Glasgow; Stanford University
Thesis	Aspects of lasers for the illumination of interferometric gravitational wave detectors (1995)
Doctoral advisor	James Hough
Website	gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/staff/sheilarowan

Sheila Rowan CBE FRS FRSE FInstP (born 25 November 1969) is a Scottish physicist and academic, who is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and director of its Institute for Gravitational Research since 2009. She is known for her work in advancing the detection of gravitation waves. In 2016, Rowan was appointed the (part-time) Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government.

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