Angela F Danil de Namor is the first female Professor of Chemistry at the University of Surrey. She graduated from the National University of the South in Bahia Blanca with a degree in Biochemistry. She came to the UK and was awarded a scholarship by the University of Surrey gaining a PhD in Chemistry for her research on ion exchange processes. She joined the Department of Chemistry as Postdoctoral Fellow, then Lecturer, Reader, and then Professor in 1999. She was the first foreign woman elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and Doctor Honoris Causa of three Universities in Latin America. Her research is on Thermodynamics of Supramolecular Chemistry and its Applications. She has published about 175 scientific papers (as main author) in highly prestigious journals of Chemistry. She has given over forty Plenary, Inaugural and Keynote Lectures at National and International Conferences. Her research has been funded by the European Commission, EPSRC, US Army and Industry. Until 2019 she was the Scientific & Technological Representative to the European Commission of the National Institute of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Production, Argentina and now she is an Emeritus and Honorary Professor at the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at the University of Surrey. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/angela-danil-de-namor