Nina Thornhill
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Nina Frances Thornhill FREng (born 1953)[1] is a British chemical engineer specialising in process automation. She is a professor emerita in the Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering, where she formerly held the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation.[2]
Thornhill read physics at the University of Oxford, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1976. She earned a master's degree in control systems in 1983 from the Imperial College London Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 through part-time study at University College London.[2]
From 1976 to 1984, she worked in industry at Imperial Chemical Industries and British Aerospace. She returned to academia in 1984, as a lecturer in the University College London Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, where she was promoted to senior lecturer in 1991, and professor in 2003.[2] In 2007 she returned to Imperial College London to take the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation. She retired as professor emerita in 2021.[3]
