Gillian Rudd earned her B.Sc. degree (1991) in biochemistry, a PGCE in chemical education (1992), and a Ph.D. degree (1995) in medicinal organic chemistry from the University of Warwick, England, consistently one of the UK’s top ranked universities.
In 1996, she took a Robert. A. Welch Post Doctoral Fellowship to study at Baylor University with Professor F.G.A Stone. From 1997 to 2003 she was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, whence she then became an Associate Professor, before moving to Georgia Gwinnett College in 2011. She was promoted to full Professor at GGC in 2016.