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Dr Shirley Ann Jackson FREng (USA) NAE FAAAS FAPS APS FAAAS
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
 A pioneer of new methods of risk assessment in nuclear engineering
and its application to nuclear power, theoretical elementary particle physicist Dr Shirley
Ann Jackson was the first woman and the first African American to serve as Chair of the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission and is now a member of President Obama’s Council of
Advisers on Science and Technology. Described by Time Magazine as “perhaps the ultimate
role model for women in science,” she has more than 35 years of research and leadership
experience in industry, education and government. Since 1999, she has transformed the oldest
technological research university in the US - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - which is now
home to the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, the Computational Center
for Nanotechnology Innovations and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.
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