Lucy Rogers

Lucy Elizabeth Rogers (born 1973) is a British author, inventor, and engineer. She is a visiting professor of engineering, creativity and communication at Brunel University London and has served as a judge on the BBC Two show Robot Wars from 2016 to 2018.

Education
Rogers studied mechanical engineering at Lancaster University with an industrial placement year at Rolls-Royce Power Systems. She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. She stayed in Lancaster for her PhD which investigated how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight petrochemical fires.

Career, research and public engagement
She attended NASA's Singularity University graduate studies program in 2011, where she co-authored a report on space debris.

In 2008 she published It's ONLY Rocket Science, a plain English guide to the mechanics of spaceflight.

Rogers hosts The DesignSpark Podcast with comedians Bec Hill and Harriet Braine.

In 2018 she founded the Guild of Makers to bring together makers from all disciplines and skill levels, which ran until 2020.

Awards and honours
Rogers is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2020. The Rooke Award committee highly commended Rogers for her efforts to promote engineering to the public. She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE).

In 2024 she received an MBE for "Services to Engineering".

In 2022 she won the "Women in Aerospace and Aviation Committee Award" from the Royal Aeronautical Society and became an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers.

In 2019 she received an alumni award for "high-flying" Lancaster University graduates.

In 2013 she was shortlisted for the WISE Campaign award.