Name:
Professor Edith Sim FBPhS
Organisation:
University of Oxford
Year elected:
2024
Primary professional setting:
Academia
Edith Sim is an Emeritus Fellow (St Peter’s College, Oxford) and a former Trustee of the Daphne Jackson Trust. She currently serves on the Board of Abertay University Dundee where her father was a student (as Bell Street Technical College) in the 1940s. She has supervised over 40 graduate students, served on national and international boards and has published over 250 papers, reviews and books. She was married for over 45 years to scientist Bob Sim who died in 2021. She is mother to Grace who works at the Royal Vet College and Francis, an orthopaedic surgeon. She has six grandchildren.