Dame Carol Vivien Robinson (born 10 April 1956) is a British chemist. She is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, as well as the Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry Elect. She was previously Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge.She received Davy Medal in 2011 for her ground-breaking and novel use of mass spectrometry for the characterisation of large protein complexes.