Jacqueline M. Cole is Head of Molecular Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She concurrently holds the BASF/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Data-Driven Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials, where she is engaged in data science and computational methods that predict and thence experimentally validate materials for photovoltaic, magnetic, and catalytic applications. She holds a joint appointment between the Physics Department (Cavendish Laboratory) and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge. She is 50% seconded by the ISIS neutron and muon facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. Her research is highly interdisciplinary. Accordingly, she holds two Ph.D. degrees: one in physics from the University of Cambridge and one in chemistry from the University of Durham. She has received a number of awards and honours including the following: the Royal Society Clifford Patterson Medal and Lecture (2020), the 1851 Royal Commission 2014 Fellowship in Design (2015–18), a Fulbright Award (all disciplines Scholar, 2013–14), and an ICAM Senior Scientist Fellowship (2013–14) for the smart material design of dye-sensitized solar cells; The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Chair, University of New Brunswick, Canada (2008–2013); a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2001–11); a Senior Research Fellowship (2002–2009) and Junior Research Fellowship (1999–2002) from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK, for the development and application of in situ light-induced single-crystal X-ray diffraction; the Royal Society of Chemistry SAC Silver Medal and Lecture (2009) for her contributions to the development of photocrystallography and advanced methods in neutron diffraction; the Brian Mercer Feasibility Award (2007) for innovation in nanotechnology; the 18th Franco-British Science prize (2006) for collaborative research and cooperation between France and Britain; and the first British Crystallographic Association Chemical Crystallography Prize (2000) for her research on nonlinear optical materials. Before moving to Cambridge, she held a postdoctoral position in physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Prior to this, she undertook a Ph.D. in chemistry through an international studentship between the Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France, and Durham University. Her university studies began at Durham University where she graduated with first class honours in chemistry in 1994. In her spare time, she has also obtained a B.Sc. Hons. degree in mathematics (2000–4), a diploma in statistics (2004–5), a certificate in astronomy and planetary science (2006–7), a diploma in physics (2007–8), and a B.Eng. Hons. degree in engineering (2010–14) all through the Open University.
