Lucy Carpenter is a Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Research) in Chemistry at the University of York. Lucy studied Chemistry at the University of Bristol and then carried out her PhD in experimental atmospheric chemistry at the University of East Anglia. She moved to York as a lecturer in 2000 and was promoted to Professor in 2009. After having children she worked part-time from 2003 -2016. Her group studies the complex interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere, in particular the chemistry of reactive halogens, organic carbon, and reactive nitrogen. She helped establish and is Director of the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory and was a lead chapter author of the WMO/UNEP 2014 and 2018 Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion. In 2006 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize, in 2015 the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award, in 2017 a Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize and in 2018 a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.