Ruth Morgan

Professor Ruth Morgan (MA (Oxon), D.Phil) is Vice Dean (Interdisciplinarity Entrepreneurship) in the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Professor of Crime and Forensic Science in the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science, and the Founder and Director of the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences.

Professor Morgan was one of the World Economic Forum Young Scientists and has received the PW Allen Award from the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences for excellent research three times in 2006, 2016 and 2018. She was the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into Forensic Science (2018-19). She is a member of the Editorial Board for Frontiers Policy Labs and has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council, part of the Scientific American and World Economic Forum Steering Group for the 2020 ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’, and is a Falling Walls Female Science Talents role model.

Ruth is a regular speaker and commentator on forensic science and the role of science in policy, and a strong advocate for enabling interdisciplinary approaches that bring diverse ways of thinking, seeing and doing to address global challenges.