Sarah Thompson is the Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of York and leads University of York’s Transformational Initiative on Building Industry Engagement and Income.
She has previously held roles of Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Sciences and Head of the Department of Physics at the University and served as Vice President of the Institute of Physics (Science and Innovation) from 2015-2019.
Her research interests are in nanomagnetism and nanoscale thermal transport and she has also won awards from the Institute of Physics and the British Association for science outreach. In 2012 she was awarded an MBE for services to Higher Education.