Dr Kate Gill
Digital Revolution Priority Leader
Department
Team
Digital Revolution (Priority 3)
Specialism
A dynamic and motivated independent Chartered Engineer with 20 years international experience of software, data management, aerospace engineering, management and consultancy in both the Defence and Civilian markets. Interested in global projects exploiting emerging technology, and in exploiting STEM best practice.
Over the span of 25 years, I have led and delivered projects from the introduction of new digital capabilities for small companies to delivery of worldwide $65M/year cloud migration projects for the US Department of Defence. I am keen to keep up to date with emerging technologies and explore how they can be applied in a digital landscape.
My current Senior Civil Service role is evidence of my desire for impact when I moved from a US defence digital delivery role to lead the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Digital Revolution. I see the impact in Kew as the same as my previous military role: to provide the right people with the right data and information, at the right time for them to make effective decisions.
Women in Defence UK Most Collaborative Award Finalist (2022)
US Office of the Secretary of Defence Exceptional Public Service Award, US Office of the Secretary of Defence (July 2022)
Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal, Issued by Royal Aeronautical Society (October 2021)
US Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service US Secretary of Defense (September 2020)
Women in Defence UK Most Collaborative Award Finalist (2020)
Fellow Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
Fellow Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAES)
Visiting Professor In Innovation and Design, School of Engineering, University of Kent, Royal Academy of Engineering (Sep 2010 - Sep 2013)
Visiting Professor, Systems Centre, University of Bristol (July 2011 - July 2016)
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1001 Genomes Plus
Cataloging genetic diversity within a single plant species, and building a computational framework to support its analysis and visualisation.
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Activated Genebank Network (AGENT)
Establishing a global genebank network to sustainably unlock the genetic diversity of food crops for future generations and make them intuitively accessible for modern breeding programmes
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Kew's Collections go digital
Taking Kew's Herbarium and Fungarium online for everyone across the globe to access.
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Digitising Kew’s plant pathogen collection
Providing the evidence to study and combat the fungi of most threat to plant health in the UK.
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Global Plants Initiative (GPI)
Increasing access to nomenclatural type specimens held in herbaria across the world through digitisation.
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Plants and minerals in Byzantine popular pharmacy
Researching Cypriot plant medicines from the Byzantine era with a focus on botanical identification
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Plants for Health
A global reference enabling regulators, industry, health practitioners and researchers to reliably access and exchange information concerning health products derived from plants or fungi.
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Reflora
Repatriating Brazil’s plant diversity information and building capacity for greater use through digitisation, dissemination and research visits.