Current Interests

Lesley Henderson is presently the Group Leader for the Electrochemistry Group, Materials Division. Her role involves project and people management.

Biography

After completing her degree at Edinburgh University, Lesley joined the National Physical Laboratory and spent 16 years doing research and development in electrical metrology. Her significant scientific achievements were to develop world-leading measurement systems for: resistance up to 100 Tera-ohm; and DC voltage standards at 1V and 10V based on the Josephson effects in superconductivity.

She has now been a Group Leader for around 14 years managing a diverse group of scientists, engineers and support staff both in electrical metrology and in materials. Trained as a PRINCE2 Practitioner and in the use of the NPL Project Management Framework, she has extensive experience in delivering to timescale complex projects ranging from BIS-funded research, BIS-funded incremental development, EU- and TSB-funded collaborative research, commercial research and development and commercial testing and calibration.

As Group Leader of the Electrochemistry Group, Lesley is responsible for a group of around 15 people.

Selected publications

• A new technique for the automatic measurement of high value resistors
  L C A Henderson, NPL
  J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 20 (1987) 492-495
• The NPL Josephson junction array system and its use for voltage ratio measurements
  L C A Henderson, R G Jones, NPL
  Meas. Sci. Technol. (formerly J. Phys. E.) 1 (1990) 993-999
• The NPL 10 V Josephson junction array voltage standard
  L C A Henderson, R P Thompson, NPL
  Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, 1996
• Editorial on Electromagnetic measurements
  L C A Henderson
  IEE Proc.-Sci. Meas, July 2000, vol 147, No 4, p173
• Discrepancies in the calibration of low frequency electrical conductivity meters used in the coin industry
  Lesley Henderson, Michael Hall, Stuart Harmon, NPL; Peter Warnecke, Bernd Schumacher, PTB, Germany; Gert Rietveld, NMi-VSL, Netherlands; Gilbert Brigodiot, EADS Space Transportation, France; Chris Hocking, Allen White, Hocking NDT Ltd, UK; Richard Bodenberger, IFR, Germany
  XXIII Mint Directors Conference, 2004

Contact details

E-mail: lesley.henderson@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 7154