Patricia Lewis (physicist)

Patricia Lewis (born 1957) is a British and Irish nuclear physicist and arms control expert, who is currently the research director for international security at Chatham House.

In 1982, she was a special assistant in the Rehabilitation Centres for Children in Calcutta, India, and from 1983 to 1986, she lectured in physics at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, from where she also carried out research at the Australian National University in Canberra, and as a visiting lecturer at Imperial College London.

[5] During the 1988–90 negotiations on the CFE treaty, Lewis was a consultant to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the verification of conventional force reductions in Europe.

[7] From 1990 to 1992 she was a visiting Lecturer at Imperial College London and was the 1992-3 Elizabeth Poppleton Fellow at the Australian National University.

[10] Lewis served on the American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) study on Technical Steps to Support Nuclear Arsenal Downsizing"[11] Lewis received Ireland's Presidential Distinguished Service Awards (2023) in January 2024 for her work on education, science, and innovation.