Hilary Roberta Bollan CSci CChem FRSC MBE is a retired chemist who was a senior scientific officer at the British Ministry of Defence.
[1] She obtained her PhD from Sheffield Hallam University under the direction of Professor Michael Cooke.
[2] For her thesis project, she investigated real-time monitoring method of ammonia, hydrazines, and nitrogen dioxide below exposure limit, using ion mobility spectrometry with ketones as dopant.
[10] She organized the Annual Conference of the International Society for Ion Mobility Spectrometry in 1999 (Buxton, England) and in 2011 (Edinburgh, Scotland).
[12] She was appointed MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for her "services to submarine safety and the Royal Navy" in the 2017 New Year Honours.