Catherine Mary Fiona Rae FIMMM is a Professor of Superalloys in the Department of Materials at the University of Cambridge.
[5] Rae became interested in science when accompanying her father on field work visits to sub-Saharan Africa and the space race between the US and USSR.
[7] Rae completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree[8] on grain boundary migration supervised by David A Smith and Peter Hazeldine.
[7][9] In 2009, Rae was awarded an Industrial Fellowship hosted by Rolls-Royce plc and provided her with direct view of the workings of the company.
[1] She is Director of the Rolls-Royce Strategic Training Partnership which was nominated for the Times Higher Education Awards in 2017 for the "Most Innovative Contribution to Business-University Collaboration".