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Professor Sheila Rowan is a British physicist. She was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Scottish government in 2016. She is also one of the leading scientific researchers in the United Kingdom in the area of detection of gravitational waves.

Early life and education
Sheila was born in Dumfries, Scotland on the 25th November 1969, She attended The university of Glasgow in 1987-1991 and received a bachelors degree of science in Physics. From 1991-1995 she did a PhD on 'The Aspects of lasers for the illumination of interferometric gravitational wave detectors'.

Academic career
After university Sheila became a postdoctoral research assistant in the Gravitational wave group at Glasgow University (1995-1998).