Professor Partridge honoured with portrait at Royal Society

A portrait of Professor Linda Partridge (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment), 2009 Woman of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), will be presented to the Royal Society in London. The UK Resource Centre for Women in SET (UKRC) commissioned the portrait of Professor Partridge for her outstanding work in evolutionary biology. Professor Partridge is a leading evolutionary biologist who specialises in ageing research, working on diseases such as Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease. She holds the Weldon Chair of Biometry at UCL and is the Director of the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing. When she was named Woman of Outstanding Achievement, Professor Partridge commented: 'I am delighted to be chosen. Young female scientists and engineers need senior females to relate to, especially at the difficult beginning of their research careers when they are deciding if it is really for them and the project helps to show them it is possible to reach the top. What I try to do is show that you can be a successful scientist and have a rounded life.