Fiona Rayment

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Rayment in 2018

Fiona Elizabeth Rayment is a British nuclear engineer who retired in 2024.

Early life and education

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Rayment has an MBA from Manchester Business School and a PhD (1992) from the University of Strathclyde, where her thesis title was "Synthesis and reactions of boranes and carboranes for use in boron neutron capture therapy".[1][2]

Career

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Before her retirement in 2024 she was employed by the National Nuclear Laboratory and its predecessors for 32 years, serving at its chief science and technology officer and later as special advisor to its CEO.[3][4][5]

Recognition

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Rayment was appointed O.B.E. in the 2017 Birthday Honours "for services to UK Nuclear Research and Innovation",[6][7] and was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2020 in recognition of her work on Franco-British nuclear partnership.[8]

She is a fellow of the Nuclear Institute, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[9] and the Royal Academy of Engineering,[10] and in 2024-2025 was president of the Nuclear Institute.[11] In 2024 she was elected a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.[12] She is patron and a board member of Women in Nuclear UK.

In April 2024 she was the subject of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 series The Life Scientific.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Dr Fiona Rayment OBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Catalogue record for thesis "Synthesis and reactions..."". JISC Library Hub Discover. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Fiona Rayment retires from NNL after 32 years". United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Faces of Nuclear Professionalism: Dr Fiona Rayment, OBE CChem FRSC FNucl" (PDF). nuclearinst.com. The Nuclear Institute. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Dr Fiona Rayment". nuclearinst.com. The Nuclear Institute. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  6. ^ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2017. p. B13.
  7. ^ "Top scientist awarded OBE for work in nuclear". In Cumbria. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  8. ^ "Major International Honour for Fiona Rayment". United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  9. ^ "Dr Fiona Rayment FRSE". Fellowship. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Dr Fiona Rayment OBE FREng". New Fellows 2019. Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  11. ^ "Fiona Rayment appointed NI President". nuclearinst.com. Nuclear Institute. 12 June 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  12. ^ "UK National Nuclear Laboratory specialists recognised by American Nuclear Society". Nuclear Industry Association. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  13. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Fiona Rayment on the applications of nuclear for net zero and beyond". BBC. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
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