Beverley Glover

Glover was born on 7 March 1972 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.[1] She is the daughter of Michael Glover and Margaret Glover (née Smith).[1] She was educated at Perth High School, a comprehensive school in Perth, Scotland.[1] She studied plant and environmental biology at the University of St Andrews, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1993.[1][5] During her undergraduate degree, she spent one summer working at the St Andrews Botanic Garden as a gardener.[5] She then began postgraduate research in plant molecular genetics at the John Innes Centre.[5] In 1997, she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, awarded by the University of East Anglia.[1] Her doctoral thesis was supervised by Cathie Martin and investigated cellular differentiation in plants.[3]

After her PhD, Glover began her career as a junior research fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge between 1996 and 1999.[1][5] In 1999, she was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.[1][5] From 2001 to 2007, she was additionally the admissions tutor for science at Queens' College.[1] She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005 and reader in 2010.[1] In July 2013, she was appointed Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Professor of plant systematics and evolution.[5]

Glover holds a number of appointments outside her university career. She has been a member of the council of the European society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology since 2010,[1][8] and of the Systematics Association since 2014.[1][9] On 1 February 2015, she was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[10][11][12] The appointment is for four years and will end on 31 January 2019.[11]

Glover serves as a member of the editorial board for Current Biology.[13]

In 2003, Glover married Stuart Nigel Bridge (dec Sep 2020).[1] Together they have two children; a daughter and a son.[1]