Fiona M. Doyle

Fiona Mary Doyle is an American materials scientist who is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society in 2021.

Doyle served as Chair of the Academic Senate. From 2005 Doyle served as Dean of the Berkeley graduate division, where she looked to improve diversity within the graduate student population. She developed child care programs, mentoring opportunities and career workshops. She was also responsible for the creation of Engineering Student Services, which improved the experience of undergraduate researchers. Over the duration of her time as Dean, Doyle increased the funding available as graduate student fellowships by $10 million. Doyle was honoured by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society for her services to materials science and student development. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering section on Earth Resources in 2016. Upon her retirement in 2019, Doyle was appointed the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. In 2021 she was elected Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

Doyle joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. She was the first woman to join the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and remained the only woman for twenty years. She was promoted to Professor in 1994.

Doyle was born in Berkeley, California, in 1956. She was the first member of her family to attend university. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, where she studied metallurgy and materials science. Doyle was a graduate student at Imperial College London, where she investigated hydrolytic stripping of mixed metal carboxylates. She was the first and only woman on her graduate engineering programme for nineteen years.