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Hilary Roberta Bollan CSci CChem FRSC MBE is a retired senior scientific officer of the Royal Navy.

Early life and education
Hilary Bollan (née Bell) was born in Bridgwater, Somerset. She obtained her PhD from Sheffield Hallam University under the direction of Professor Michael Cooke. 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. Her thesis research was conducted primarily at the Bridgwater Laboratories of the Defence and Evaluation Research Agency, and partly in the laboratory of Professor Gary A. Eiceman at the New Mexico State University.

Career and research
The research of Bollan focused on improving the safety of submarine, from sampling and monitoring air quality in submarine,     to monitoring chemicals which precedes electrical fires.

Bollan served as an editor of the International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry. She was the president of the International Society for Ion Mobility Spectrometry (2007-2008, 2013-2015). She organized the Annual Conference of the International Society for Ion Mobility Spectrometry in 1999 (Buxton, England) and in 2011 (Edinburgh, Scotland).

Honours
Bollan is a Chartered Scientist, Charted Chemist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 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 Honors.