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Dame Angela Mclean is the chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. She is also a former professor of mathematical biology at the University of Oxford.
Mclean attended Somerville College and graduated in 1982. She briefly attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley for one year until 1983, at which point she proceeded to attend Imperial College, London until graduating in 1986.
After graduating college, Mclean was a royal society university research fellow at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 1994. Following that she was a research fellow at the Pasteur Institut in Paris until 1998. In 1998, she became head of the mathematical biology department at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's Institute for Animal Health, where she remained until 2000.
From 2000 to 2008, Mclean was a professor of mathematical biology at the University of Oxford. In 2005, she became the director of the Institute for Emerging Infections at Oxford Martin School. In 2008, she became a senior research fellow in theoretical life sciences at All Souls College. In 2009, she was elected fellow of the Royal Society. Mclean was appointed chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence in September 2019.
Mclean became a dame in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in honor of her professorial services to the mathematical biology at the University of Oxford and for her role as scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence.
