Dame Sue Ion, who lives in Leyland and has ties to UCLan, has joined the ranks of physicists including Professor Stephen Hawking, Professor Peter Higgs and Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell by earning the the highest honour that the Institute of Physics can bestow.
Sue has been conferred with an Honorary Fellowship by the IoP ‘for her internationally recognised expertise in energy and energy policy and tireless advocacy of the safe and efficient use of nuclear power for a better world’.
In addition to her role on the UCLan governors board, Sue is a British engineer and an expert advisor on the nuclear power industry. She represents the UK on the world stage, as well as helping to shape long-term energy strategy at home.
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