Professor Dame Linda Partridge

Professor Dame Linda Partridge DBE FRS FRSE FMedSci is an internationally renowned geneticist whose pioneering research has transformed understanding of the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. She is the Weldon Professor of Biometry at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London (UCL), and Founding Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany.

Dame Linda studied at the University of Oxford, where she earned her BA, MA, and DPhil degrees, and has held academic appointments at the Universities of York, Edinburgh, and UCL.

Throughout her career, Dame Linda has received numerous accolades including — in 2009 — both the Royal Society’s Croonian Lecture and the Darwin–Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society of London. Linda has been elected to many prestigious scientific organisations, including the Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, Linda was named a DBE for her services to science. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.