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Caroline Hargrove

Caroline Hargrove CBE FREng (née Hogue,[1] born March 1968[2]) is Chief Technical Officer of Ceres Power. She previously served as CTO at Zedsen, Babylon Health, McLaren Applied Technologies and as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.[3][4]

Caroline Hargrove
CBE FREng
Born
Caroline Hogue[1]
Alma materQueen's University
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsBabylon Health
McLaren Applied Technologies
ThesisComputer modelling of the motion of granular particles (1993)
Doctoral advisorDavid Newland

Early life and education

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Hargrove is from Montreal, Quebec.[5] She studied mathematics and mechanical engineering at Queen's University, Ontario, which she graduated in 1989.[1][6] She moved to the University of Cambridge for her postgraduate studies, earning a PhD[7] for research on computer modelling of granular materials supervised by David Newland [Wikidata] in 1993.[8][6]

Career

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After her postgraduate studies, Hargrove remained at the University of Cambridge as a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.[9][10] She joined McLaren in 1997, where she worked in vehicle dynamics.[11] For ten years she was responsible for the McLaren F1 simulator.[9] She was one of the founders of McLaren Applied Technologies[12] as Programme Director in 2007, then Technical Director in 2013 and CTO in 2018.[13] Her job involved R&D strategy and IP development.[14] She championed the use of big data in motor racing.[15] She helped translate the technology of McLaren F1 to medical services, developing analysis and support tools.[16][17][18] She worked with Olympic athletes and the UK track cycling team.[1][11][19][20] She created a data-logger that mounts under the saddle to collect information of speed, power, tilt and torque, then send it to the coach.[5] Her team translated the 3D accelerometers from Formula One cars into sensors for human use, working with GlaxoSmithKline to monitor patient's response to drugs.[21][22] In 2016 she announced the use of their simulator for testing domestic vehicles.[23]

She was a Visiting Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at Oxford University from 2015-2018.[24]

In 2018 she became the CTO of Babylon Health, focussing on the use of AI to diagnose patients.[25]

In April 2021 she was named as CTO of Zedsen, a UK based startup that provides non-invasive blood sugar monitoring technology.[26]

Later that year she joined Ceres Power (developers of fuel cell and green hydrogen technology) as Chief Technology Officer, having been a non-executive director of the company for the previous three years.[27] She remained as a non-executive at Zedsen.

Hargrove is an advocate for increasing the number of girls and women in engineering through visits to schools and on-site work experience.[28][29]

Awards and honours

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In 2016 Hargrove was named one of the Women's Engineering Society and The Daily Telegraph's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering.[30]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017,[31][24] and was subsequently profiled in the in-house magazine Ingenia.[32] In the same year she was announced as one of the Top 50 Innovators in the World by Codex.[33]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to engineering.[34]

In 2023 she was awarded an honorary degree from Queen's University.[35]

Media Appearances

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In 2014 she appeared on BBC Radio 4, where she discussed how Britain became a world leader in Formula One cars.[36]

She was the subject of The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 hosted by Jim Al-Khalili on 20 November 2018.[37]

on 6 March 2020 The BBC World Service featured Hogue on their World Wise Web series being interviewed by a 16 year old motor racing fan about the F1 simulator.[38]

References

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  2. ^ "Caroline Hargrove personal appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  3. ^ Excell, Jon (15 June 2018). "Interview: Mclaren Applied Technologies CTO Dr Caroline Hargrove". theengineer.co.uk. The Engineer.
  4. ^ Al-Khalili, Jim (2018). "The Life Scientific: Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove". bbc.co.uk. BBC.
  5. ^ a b "The Fast and the Serious" (PDF). Drake P Bennett. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Sports cars and a whole lot more: McLaren's just the job". The Telegraph. 22 September 2017. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  7. ^ Hogue, Caroline (1993). Computer modelling of the motion of granular particles. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 556748821. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.239032.
  8. ^ "Professors Julian Allwood and Richard Prager elected Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering | Department of Engineering". eng.cam.ac.uk. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  9. ^ a b "McLaren top engineers return to Cambridge for C4IR Network launch". Cambridge Network. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  10. ^ Kenward, Michael (March 2024). "On the fast track to green hydrogen". Ingenia (98). Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  11. ^ a b Medeiros, João. "How McLaren uses F1 tech to reinvent global companies". Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  12. ^ "King's College London - Inspirational Women". kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  13. ^ "Lessons for the IoT from 8 World Championships | IoT Forum | McLaren Technologies - Internet of Things Forum". Internet of Things Forum. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  14. ^ "GREAT Global Investment Conference". events.trade.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  15. ^ Business of Software Conference (11 March 2015). "Caroline Hargrove - Lessons from 8 World Championships - McLaren Appl…". {{cite journal}}: |last= has generic name (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ^ Carney, Dan. "McLaren and medicine: An unlikely pairing". Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  17. ^ "Formula 1 Technology Is Being Used To Make Better Surgeons – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  18. ^ "McLaren Applied Technologies". mclaren.com. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  19. ^ Baldwin, Alan. "F1 rivalry hots up on ice". U.S. Retrieved 29 April 2018.[dead link‍]
  20. ^ Majendie, Matt. "McLaren: From Formula One to a formula for gold". CNN. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  21. ^ "Formula One Technology Used In Drug Trials". Sky News. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  22. ^ "Why is McLaren Revving up Into Healthcare?". Design News. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  23. ^ "McLaren Formula One development tool now at hand for the family car". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  24. ^ a b "Dr Caroline Hargrove FREng". Royal Academy of Engineering. 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  25. ^ Taylor, Jessica (27 November 2018). "The F1 engineer who has turned her hand to healthcare". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  26. ^ Titcomb, James (4 April 2021). "Blood sensing start-up Zedsen hits $110m valuation after US investment". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  27. ^ "Leadership - Ceres". www.ceres.tech. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  28. ^ "Students to be given the opportunity to 'See Inside' McLaren at the 2013 McLaren Manufacturing Challenge grand final". automotivecouncil.co.uk. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  29. ^ "More women needed in engineering jobs, says McLaren Technical Director | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  30. ^ ap507. "University of Leicester Professor among 'Top 50 Women in Engineering' — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  31. ^ "Robot and nano-drug experts among 53 new Royal Academy of Engineering fellows". imeche.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  32. ^ Engineering, Royal Academy of. "On the fast track to green hydrogen". Ingenia. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  33. ^ Codex (26 October 2017), Dr Caroline Hargrove, McLaren - What can Formula 1 teach business about data analytics?, retrieved 27 April 2018
  34. ^ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N9.
  35. ^ "Honorary Degree Recipient Caroline Hargrove Address and Reception | Queen's Alumni". www.queensu.ca. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  36. ^ "Fast and Furious, In Business - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  37. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove". BBC. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  38. ^ "Formula 1 simulator". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
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