Non-executive Director, Cefas

Professor Rachel Mills

Biography

Rachel will join the University of Sussex in August 2021 from the University of Southampton. As Provost, she will be Sussex’s most senior academic, overseeing all Schools.

Rachel has a distinguished scientific record and has carried out a wide range of leadership roles at Southampton, where she is currently Dean of the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences and is a member of the university’s executive.

After completing her PhD and postdoctoral work at Cambridge, Rachel joined Southampton in 1993. Rachel is an oceanographer who works on the chemistry of the deep seafloor and its impact on life in the sea. She has led research expeditions using submersibles and remotely operated vehicles to remote and deep, unexplored parts of the ocean.

Non-executive Director, Cefas

  • Non-executive director of corporate management board

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science