Rebecca Shipley

Rebecca Shipley
Born
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
OccupationProfessor of Healthcare Engineering
EmployerUniversity College London

Rebecca Julia Shipley OBE FREng FIET FRSA is a British mathematician and expert in healthcare engineering and innovation. She is Professor of healthcare engineering at University College London (UCL) and Chief Research Officer at UCLPartners. During 2018-2024 she was Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Vice Dean (Health) for the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. She has co-led multidisciplinary research initiatives at UCL including the Centre for Nerve Engineering, Centre for Computational Medicine and UCL CHIMERA Research Hub. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2021 for pandemic response work and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.