IOM3 Fellow recognised in New Year Honours 2025

Professor Rachel Oliver CEng FIMMM was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List 2025.

Professor Rachel Oliver CEng FIMMM is a materials engineer, inventor and commercial spinout founder. She is the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride Chief Scientific Officer of Poro Technologies Ltd. (Porotech) and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge University. She has been a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining since 2019 and she held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2006 to 2011.

We are delighted that she has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List 2025. 

Rachel said: 'I am delighted to receive this honour and it is vital that I acknowledge the fabulous teams that I work with both in the University of Cambridge and at Porotech, a company that spun out from my research group.  I hope I can encourage more people to get involved in semiconductors in the UK. The semiconductor ecosystem has been an exciting place to work throughout my career, but never more so than right now, with both research and industry rapidly growing and stepping up to address some of the most pressing challenges we face.'