She joined AUC in September 2019 as Administrative Officer and Secretary to AUC’s Board of Studies. Originally from the UK, Rowena previously worked as an Intellectual Property Rights Officer at the University of Oxford and prior to that spent 13 years in scientific publishing, working in editorial and publisher positions at the Royal Society of Chemistry and Springer Nature. Rowena studied Zoology at the University of Bristol and has an enduring love of science, research and the natural world.