been a key member of nearly every team, in the UK, Europe and the US, concerned with the development and use of instruments for the studies of ultra-violet and x-ray spectra of the Sun and of the stars. Career Research associate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1966 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Astronomy, UCL, attached to the Spectroscopy Division of UKAEA Culham Laboratory, 1966–69 During this time, she completed her ionisation-balance calculations and the identification of some forbidden lines and satellite lines. In 1969, she started to devise methods to obtain the structure of the solar transition region. Astrophysics Research Unit, Culham Laboratory: Post-doctoral research assistant, 1969–71 Senior Scientific Officer, 1971–73 Principal Scientific Officer, 1973–76 Wolfson Tutorial Fellow in Natural Science, Somerville College, Oxford, 1976 - University of Oxford: reader in physics, 1994–96, professor of physics 1996-, head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2003–2008, emeritus professor 2008 -. She has published papers on astrophysical plasma spectroscopy and structure and energy balance in cool star coronae. Affiliations Royal Astronomical Society: Fellow, 1966; secretary, 1981–90; vice-president, 1990–91 and 1996–97; president, 1994–96. Member of the International Astronomical Union, 1967 Editor of The Observatory, 1968–73 Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1973 Fellow of the Royal Society, 1990 Doctor of the University of Surrey, 1991 Member of the Science and Engineering Research Council, 1985-90 (Chairman, Solar System Committee, 1983–86; Member, Astronomy, Space and Radio Board, 1979–86; Member, Astronomy and Planetary Science Board, 1986–90) Member of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, 1994–97 Damehood Carole Jordan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 17 June 2006. References External links Personal page 1941 births Living people Women astronomers British women physicists Alumni of University College London Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Female Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Institute of Physics Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Physics Academics of University College London Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century British astronomers 21st-century British astronomers 20th-century British women scientists 21st-century British women scientists