Kate Robson Brown
Prof, Governance Committee member
Kate Robson Brown is Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact at University College Dublin (UCD), a position she has held since March 2024. She previously held a professorship in Engineering Mathematics and Biological Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where she also directed the Jean Golding Institute for Data Science and AI. A PhD graduate of the University of Cambridge, her interdisciplinary research spans biological anthropology, tissue microstructure, human factors, biomimetics and computational modelling. She is a Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, where she chaired the Research and Innovation Advisory Committee, and has extensive experience in research leadership, data science and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her wider roles include advising the European Space Agency and contributing to national and international research and innovation networks.