The Fellowship

New Fellows 2012

The Royal Academy of Engineering is pleased to announce that the following New Fellows and Foreign Members were elected at the AGM on 16 July 2012.

Honorary Fellows

Professor Sir John Beddington CMG HonFREng FRS
Government Chief Scientific Adviser

Sir Paul Nurse HonFREng FMedSci PRS
President, Royal Society

Ratan Naval Tata HonFREng KBE
Chairman, Tata Group

Fellows

Professor Chinemelu Jidenka Anumba FREng
Head, Department of Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Professor Colin Gareth Bailey FREng
Vice President and Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Manchester

Professor Serena Michelle Best FREng
Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge

Dr Peter Bonfield FREng
Chief Executive, Building Research Establishment

David Braben FREng
Chairman, Frontier Developments Ltd

(William) Tudor Brown FREng
Formerly President, ARM Holdings Ltd

Dr Rob Buckingham FREng
Co-Founder and Managing Director, OCRobotics

Kenneth Walter Burrage FREng
Chairman, Institution of Railway Signal Engineers Licensing Scheme

Professor David Cardwell FREng
Professor of Superconducting Engineering and Deputy Head, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Cynthia Carroll FREng
Chief Executive, Anglo American plc

Professor Jonathon Chambers FREng
Professor of Communications and Signal Processing and Associate Dean (Enterprise), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University

Dr Andrew Ka Ching Chan FREng
Deputy Chairman, Arup Group Ltd

Suranga Chandratillake FREng
Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer blinkx plc

Sir Frank Chapman FREng
Chief Executive, BG Group

Professor Peter John Clarkson FREng
Professor of Engineering Design, University of Cambridge, and Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre

Iain Conn FREng FRSE
Group Managing Director and Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, BP plc

Dr Stephen Thomas Elston FREng
Formerly Senior Engineer, Rolls-Royce plc

Professor Anthony Finkelstein FREng
Dean, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London

Dr Peter Fitzgerald FREng
Managing Director, Randox

Dr Martin Grant FREng
Chief Executive Officer, Energy, Atkins plc

Professor Oubay Hassan FREng
Head, Civil and Computational Engineering Centre, Swansea University

Professor Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang FREng
Director, EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology, University of Huddersfield

Professor Paul William Jowitt CBE FREng FRSE
Professor of Civil Engineering Systems, Heriot Watt University

Professor Gautam Kalghatgi FREng
Senior Research Science Consultant, Saudi Aramco, and RAEng Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield

Douglas Alexander King FREng
Principal, King Shaw Associates Consulting Engineers, and RAEng Visiting Professor of Building Engineering Physics, University of Bath

Anthony Miles Kinghorn FREng
Chief Technical Officer (RF), SELEX Galileo Ltd

Professor David Michael Lane FREng FRSE
Director, Ocean Systems Laboratory, Heriot Watt University, and Director, SeeByte Inc.

Allen Frederick Leatt FREng
Senior Vice President Engineering, Subsea 7

Professor William Edward Lee FREng
Director of Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics and Professor of Ceramic Engineering, Imperial College; Co-Director Centre for Nuclear Engineering, Imperial College; and Deputy Chair, Government Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWIM)

Sir Kevin Leeson KCB CBE FREng
Chief of Materiel (Air) Defence Equipment and Support, RAF Board Member for Materiel, and Chief Engineer (RAF), Ministry of Defence

Professor Timothy Grant Leighton FREng
Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics, University of Southampton

Professor Wayne Luk FREng
Professor of Computer Engineering and Head of Computer Systems Research Section, Imperial College London

Professor Elaine Barbara Martin OBE FREng
Professor of Industrial Statistics and Director, Biopharmaceutical Bioprocessing Technology Centre, Newcastle University

Professor Allan Matthews FREng
Professor of Surface Engineering, University of Sheffield

Professor Robert Maxwell McMeeking FREng
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor of Engineering Materials, University of Aberdeen

Professor Ian Saxley Metcalfe FREng
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Newcastle University

Dr Stephen Myers FREng
Director of Accelerators and Technology, CERN, Geneva

Professor Richard Vincent Penty FREng
Professor of Photonics, University of Cambridge

Professor Jane Ann Plant CBE FREng FRSE
Anglo American Professor of Geochemistry, Imperial College London

Dr Ian Pratt FREng
Senior Vice President for Products, Bromium Inc

Dr William Hugh Salvin Rampen FREng
Managing Director, Artemis Intelligent Power Ltd

Dr Peter Charles Robery FREng
Technical Director, Halcrow Group Ltd

Professor Nigel Seaton FREng
Principal and Vice-Chancellor (Designate), University of Abertay Dundee

Professor Malcolm Clive Smith FREng
Professor and Head of Control Group, University of Cambridge

Professor Michael Geoffrey Somekh FREng
Director, Institute of Biophysics Imaging and Optical Science, University of Nottingham

Professor Hugh Spikes FREng
Professor of Lubrication, Imperial College London

Professor Austin Tate FREng FRSE
Personal Chair of Knowledge-based Systems and Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh; Senior Visiting Scientist, Florida Institute for Human Machine Cognition

Dr Richard Whittington FREng
Chief Strategy Officer, MooD International Ltd

Dr Gareth Williams FREng
Vice President Engineering, Research and Technology, Airbus SAS, Toulouse

Professor Paul Geoffrey Wrobel FREng
Professor of Naval Architecture, University College London

Professor Eric Morgan Yeatman FREng
Professor of Microengineering and Deputy Head, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London

Dr Saeed Zahedi OBE FREng
Technical Director, Chas A Blatchford and Sons Ltd

International Fellows

Tony Gibbs FREng (Grenada)
Consultant, Consultant Engineers Partnership Ltd

Dr Shirley Ann Jackson FREng (USA)
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy

Dr Allyson Lawless FREng (South Africa)
Director, Allyson Lawless and Associates (Pty) Ltd, and Managing Director, SAICE Professional Development and Projects

Dr Ing Michel Virlogeux FREng (France)
Consultant

 

 

Updated August 2012

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