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Juliet Gerrard

New Zealand chemist

Dame Juliet Ann Gerrard (born 1967) is a New Zealand biochemistry academic. She is a professor at the University of Auckland and was New Zealand Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor during the administration of Jacinda Ardern.²

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Born 1967.¹

Companies

Hi-Aspect LtdFounder²¹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Oxford Doctor of Philosophy³
Date not recordedUniversity of Oxford Bachelor of Science (Honours)^{3 4}

Early life

Gerrard was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1967. Her family frequently moved around the United Kingdom when she was a child, living in various locations including Nottingham, Wales and Grimsby. She liked science and focused on chemistry in her studies.

Education and career

Gerrard obtained a first-class honours degree in chemistry at the University of Oxford and then in 1992 a DPhil titled Studies on dihydrodipicolinate synthase, also from Oxford. She moved to Crop and Food in New Zealand in 1997 and then the University of Canterbury in 1998, where she rose to full professor. She then moved to a professorship at the University of Auckland in 2014, where she holds a Callaghan Innovation Industry and Outreach Fellowship. Having been the recipient of Marsden grants herself in 1998 and 2003, Gerrard went on to serve as the chair of the Royal Society of New Zealand's Marsden Fund Council from 2012 until 2018.

Her research includes investigations of protein-protein interactions, lysine biosynthesis (particularly the enzyme dihydrodipicolinate synthase) and the application of protein chemistry to the food industry. She has over 175 publications, including three books.

In June 2018 she was appointed the New Zealand Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor, succeeding Sir Peter Gluckman and taking up the role for two three-year terms starting 1 July 2018. In her role she has tried to "draw on as many science voices as possible", and to be "rigorous, transparent, accessible and inclusive".

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Career

Occupation: chemist, science communicator.^{12 13}

Since 2018Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor^{9 11}
Since 2014Worked at University of Auckland^{5 7}
1998 to 2014Worked at University of Canterbury⁵
1997 to 1998Worked at Institute for Crop and Food Research^{5 6}
Date not recordedFounded Hi-Aspect Ltd⁸
Date not recordedFull professor^{9 10}

Personal life

Born1967, Nottingham^{13 14}
CitizenshipNew Zealand^{15 16}

Awards

2020Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit‎^{16 17}
2018Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry^{17 19}
2012Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi^{17 18}

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WikidataJuliet Gerrard: Worked at Institute for Crop and Food Research, on Wikidata
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WikidataJuliet Gerrard: Founded Hi-Aspect Ltd, on Wikidata
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WikidataJuliet Gerrard: Full professor, on Wikidata
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WikidataJuliet Gerrard: LinkedIn, on Wikidata
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Wikimedia CommonsJuliet Gerrard photo by New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY 4.0