Lesley Yellowlees CBE FRSE FRSC
Professor Lesley Yellowlees
Born	Lesley Jane Yellowlees 1953 (age 71–72) London, UK
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Spouse	Peter W. Yellowlees[1]
Children	Sarah, Mark[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Inorganic chemistry Electrochemistry
Institutions	Royal Society of Chemistry University of Queensland University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh
Thesis	Spectro-electrochemical studies on luminescent complexes (1983)
Yellowlees' voice Recorded during her Royal Society of Chemistry presidency
Website	www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/professor-lesley-yellowlees

Lesley Jane Yellowlees (born 1953) is a Britishinorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry,Electron transfer reactions andElectron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Yellowlees was also elected as the president of theRoyal Society of Chemistry 2012–14 and was the first woman to hold that role .^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Yellowlees was born in 1953 inLondon, moving toEdinburgh at the age of 9 and attendingSt Hilary's Girls' School. Her father worked forRank Hovis McDougall, and she has two sisters.^[12] She completed her higher education at theUniversity of Edinburgh, gaining a BSc inChemical Physics in 1975, and PhD in InorganicElectrochemistry in 1982. Yellowlees was the only woman graduate in her undergraduate class, graduating with a first.^[13] Continuing on from this Yellowlees began herpostdoctoral research in theUniversity of Glasgow in 1983.^[14]

Lesley Yellowlees' first job was as an administrator in theNational Health Service, but after moving toBrisbane, she went into electrochemical research^[15] subsequently worked in theUniversity of Queensland. Returning to the University of Edinburgh, to do a PhD on solar cell chemistry, Yellowlees became a demonstrator in 1986, a lecturer in 1989^[16] and was appointed Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in 2005. She was the first woman to be appointed head of chemistry in the university.^[15] And is alsovice-principal of the university and head of the College of Science and Engineering.

Yellowlees was made aFellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2005^[17] and an Honorary Fellow ofRoyal Society of Chemistry in 2015.^[18] She became a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.^[1] and is also a Fellow of theInstitute of Physics.^[19]

To mark theInternational Year of Chemistry,IUPAC selected 25 women including Yellowlees for the Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award.^[20]

She took over the presidency of the Royal Society of Chemistry on 4 July 2012 for a two-year term^[2] (she was succeeded by ProfessorDominic Tildesley).

TheNational Portrait Gallery has two portraits of her.^[21][22] There is also a painting of her byPeter Edwards inBurlington House, the headquarters of the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[23]

Yellowlees was appointedMBE in 2005 for services to science andCBE in the2014 New Year Honours for services to chemistry.^[17][24][25]

Yellowlees holds Honorary Doctorates fromHeriot-Watt University (awarded in 2012),^[26] andEdinburgh Napier University (awarded in 2016).^[27]

Yellowlees was named theUniversity of Edinburgh Alumnus of the Year 2013 in honour of her research, leadership and her work as an advocate for women inSTEM subjects.^[28]

In 2014, she was included in theBBC's 100 Women.^[29]

She is married to Peter W. Yellowlees, aChartered Accountant,^[30] and they have two children.^[1][2]

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