The panel of international judges involved in the Boyle Medal Award
Prof Dorothy Guy-Ohlson
Prof Guy-Ohlson is an expert in historical geology and palaeontology and has a wealth of experience serving on educational and research committees in Sweden and at international level. She has served as chair on many of these. She has more than 100 research publications on her specialist sub fields of pre-quaternary biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and micropalaeontology. She also has 20 publications on research and technology development strategy and policy.
She was born in Scotland but is a Swedish national and citizen. Her current post in Brussels follows an invitation from the European Commission to work as a researcher in the Research Directorate-General. She is looking at aspects of the mobility of researchers within the European Research Area.
She has held important positions within the Swedish science community. She chaired the Geoscience Committee of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council and served on its executive board. She was a member of the Swedish National Committee for Geology and chaired the Swedish International Geological Correlation Programme.She lectured for 25 years at the universities of Lund, Stockholm and Göthenburg.
Prof Dervilla M. X. Donnelly
Prof Donnelly has served and continues to serve in a wide range of capacities related to the sciences, but also Irish society in general. She currently chairs the Government-established Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction but has also been vice-chair of the board of governors of the National Gallery of Ireland and president of the Royal Dublin Society.
An organic chemist, she is emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at UCD, where she lectured for many years. She has been involved in a range of bodies from the European Science Foundation to the Irish Times Ltd where she is a director and governor. She was chair of the Custom House Docks Development Authority and is currently the chair of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. She also serves as a member of the board of management of the RDS.
She is a member of the Austrian Council for Science and Technology Development and has long been involved in international science bodies. She chaired the evaluation committee of the OECD programme Megascience Forum and was a council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
She was vice-president of the Royal Irish Academy and chaired the National Education Convention.
Prof John Enderby CBE
Physicist John Enderby is a senior research fellow and H. O. Wills Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the University of Bristol. He also maintains a senior position within the Royal Society, jointly overseeing the key election process for Fellows.
His primary research interest has been in the structure and properties of liquids, glasses and amorphous solids and has published more than 180 papers in this field. Distinctions include his election to the Institute of Physics in 1971, to the Academia Europaea in 1989 and his 1997 appointment as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
He is physical secretary and vice- president of the Royal Society. As physical secretary he works alongside the biological secretary at the Royal Society to oversee the induction of new Fellows, the awarding of Royal Society medals and awards and the appointment process for the society's many university research fellows and professors.
He is editor in chief of the Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter and chairs the editorial board of the society's learned journals. He has responsibility for the society's science advice work relating to the science base and to innovation.
His current research is on reflectivity studies of glass surfaces.
Sir Dai Rees
Sir Dai (David Allan) Rees has enjoyed a distinguished career in the sciences, with 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals to his credit. He has also held a collection of important positions in a range of bodies including the Medical Research Council and the European Science Foundation, and has received numerous awards.
Sir Dai is a chemist, receiving a BSc and PhD in chemistry at University College of North Wales, Bangor. His most recent position prior to his retirement was as chairman of CNAP, the research centre at the University of York for solving problems for industry, society and the environment through gene research.
He has served as secretary and chief executive of the Medical Research Council and as president of the European Science Foundation. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981 and was knighted in 1993.
Other posts have included serving on the Council of the Royal Society, chair of the European Medical Research Councils and as a member of the European Commission's Committee for the European Development of Science and Technology.
He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine and has received a collection of honorary doctorates.