Monique Simmonds
Monique Simmonds | |
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| Born | Monique Sheelagh Jacquard Simmonds February 1950 (age 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds (BSc) Birkbeck College (PhD) |
Monique Sheelagh Jacquard Simmonds OBE (born February 1950)[1] is a British chemist and botanist who is deputy keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She has been involved in identifying plant-derived compounds in several criminal investigations. She is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the Royal Society of Biology.
Life
[edit | edit source]Simmonds earned her BSc at the University of Leeds and her PhD in parasitology at Birkbeck College, University of London.[2] Her doctoral thesis was on the subject of the parasitoids of synanthropic flies.[3]
Simmonds is deputy keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Director of the Commercial Innovation Unit. She is also Deputy Director of Science - Partnerships.[4] She has worked at Kew Gardens since 1985.[5] Simmonds research interests are in the economic uses of plants and fungi, and the uses of chemicals derived from plants and fungi.[2][6][7][8] She is also involved in the identification of compounds derived from plants.[9] Simmonds fundraised to create a collection of 7,000 specimens from Chinese medicine at Kew,[10] and has been directing research aimed at using them to improve the safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine.[11]
Simmonds has provided chemical botanical investigations in several criminal investigations.[5] She was responsible for identifying the plant Gelsemium elegans as a possible cause of the poisoning of Alexander Perepilichny in 2015.[12] Simmonds identified sesame in the food from Pret a manger eaten by Natasha Ednan-Laperouse before her allergic reaction and death in 2016.[13]
Simmonds is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, the World Innovation Foundation, the Royal Society of Biology, and the Linnean Society.[14]
The standard author abbreviation M.Simmonds is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[15]
Selected publications
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Substantiating Botanical Safety & Sustainability with Prof Monique Simmonds, Ph.D., 8 March 2022, via YouTube
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