Queen Mary 2 designer Stephen Payne, international development champion Jo da Silva from Arup, and John Loughhead, leader of the UK Energy Research Centre, are among the 44 pioneering engineers elected this year to the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The Academy, which promotes the engineering and technological welfare of the UK, has elected leading engineers from commercial engineering including BAE Systems’ Simon Howison, UK engineering leader for the Eurofighter Typhoon, and Timothy Leverton, who led JCB’s record-breaking Dieselmax land speed project.
Some of the country’s most visionary academics are also elected, such as cardiac ultrasound expert Professor Alison Noble of Oxford University and fuel cell pioneer Professor Nigel Brandon of Imperial College London.
Fertility expert Lord Winston, venture capitalist Anne Glover of Amadeus, Ordnance Survey chief Vanessa Lawrence and DFID Chief Scientist Sir Gordon Conway have also been elected as Honorary Fellows.
“Our new Fellows are among the very best engineers working in the UK today,” says Academy President Lord Browne of Madingley. “They are pushing the technical boundaries across the most challenging fields from medical imaging to aeronautics and energy technology. Together they demonstrate that engineering is at the heart of modern society.”
The complete list of new Fellows is as follows:
HONORARY FELLOWS
CONWAY, Sir Gordon
Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Development (DFID) and Chair of International Development, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
GLOVER, Anne
Chief Executive Officer, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd
LAWRENCE, Vanessa
Chief Executive and Director General, Ordinance Survey
WINSTON, Lord (Robert)
Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College; Member, Council of EPSRC and Chair of EPSRC Societal Issues Panel
FELLOWS
BACON, David John
Professor of Materials Science, University of Liverpool
BOLTON, Malcolm David
Professor of Soil Mechanics and Head of the Geotechnical and Environmental Group, University of Cambridge
BRANDON, Nigel Peter
Chief Scientist, Ceres Power and Shell Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy, Imperial College London
BUNDY, Alan
Professor of Automated Reasoning, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
CARR, Michael Douglas
Chief Science Officer, BT plc
CLEEVELY, David Douglas
Industrial Fellow, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
CLYNE, Trevor William
Professor of Mechanics of Materials and Director of Gordon Laboratory, Cambridge University
DA SILVA, Jo
Director, Arup International Development, Arup Group
DAVIES, Charles William
Chief Technical Officer, Symbian plc
FLECK, Norman Andrew
Professor of Engineering, Director of Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics; Head of Mechanics, Materials and Design, Engineering Department, Cambridge University
GALLIMORE, Simon John
Chief of Thermo Fluids Systems Engineering and Engineering Fellow, Turbo Machinery
Aerodynamics, Rolls-Royce plc
GOULETTE, Michael James
Executive Vice President Engineering and Technology - Operations, Rolls-Royce Group
GRAINGER, Philip Stanley
Technical Director and Chief Technologist, GKN Aerostructures
GRATTAN, Kenneth Thomas Victor
Professor of Measurement and Instrumentation and Deputy Dean, City University, London
GRAY, Iain Gilmour
Chief Executive, Technology Strategy Board, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
HONEYMAN, Graham Aubrey
Chief Executive, Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd
HOWISON, Simon
Group Engineering Director, BAE Systems Air Systems
HUDSON, John
Design Authority and Engineering Director, BAE Systems Submarine Solutions
JACK, Alan Galloway
Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Newcastle
JAMIESON, Andrew
Executive Vice-President Gas and Projects, Shell Global Solutions; Director, Woodside Energy Limited
KRAMER, Jeffrey
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London
LEE, Joseph Hun-Wei
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Redmond Chair of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
LEVERTON, Timothy Andrew
Group Engineering Director, JCB
LOUGHHEAD, John Neil
Executive Director, UK Energy Research Centre
LYNCH, Michael
Chief Executive Officer, Autonomy Corporation plc
McEWAN, Ian Kenneth
Founder, Brinker Technology; Reader, Aberdeen University
McGEOUGH, Joseph Anthony
Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh
NOBLE, Julia Alison
Professor of Engineering Science and Director, Wolfson Medical Vision Laboratory, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
OWENS, David Howard
Professor of Control Systems Engineering and Head of Department of Automatic Control Systems, University of Sheffield
PADFIELD, Gareth Davies
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Head of Department of Engineering, University of Liverpool
PAYNE, Stephen Michael
Vice President, Chief Naval Architect, Carnival Corporate Shipbuilding, Southampton
PRICE, Peter David
Director of Engineering and Technology, Civil Aerospace, Rolls-Royce plc
RAWSTHORNE, Alasdair
Chief Technology Officer, Transitive Corporation Ltd
RICKELL, Robert Andrew
Global Engineering Director, GKN Driveline Driveshafts
SHOTT, Ian
Founder and Chairman, Excelsym
SILVA, Sembukuttiarachilage Ravi Pradip
Director, Advanced Technology Institute and Nano-Electronics Centre, University of Surrey
SPURGEON, Sarah Katherine
Professor of Engineering and Head of Department of Engineering, University of Leicester
TITCHENER-HOOKER, Nigel
Professor of Biochemical Engineering, University College London
TOPHAM, Nigel Peter
Professor of Computer Systems, University of Edinburgh
TOUMAZOU, Christofer
Director and Chief Scientist, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Winston Wong Chair in Biomedical Circuits, Imperial College London
UNDERWOOD, Ian
Professor of Electronic Displays, University of Edinburgh; Chief Scientific Advisor, MicroEmissive Displays Ltd, Edinburgh
VAN SOMEREN, Nicholas Benedict
Co-founder of ANT plc and nCipher plc
WIESNER, Christoph Stefan
Director, Research and Technology, TWI
WILSON, Tony
Professor of Engineering Science and Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS
DEWEY, Clarence Forbes
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard and MIT
DURST, Franz Josef
Managing Director, FMP Technology GmbH
GREITZER, Edward
Slater Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
IMBERGER, Jorg
Professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia
MUKHERJEE, Tridibesh
Group Director (Technology and Integration), Tata Steel Group
SEO, Jung Uck
Chairman of the Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea; President Emeritus, Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea; Chair Professor, Sunchon National University, Korea; Chairman, e-Trade Facilitation Committee, Korea
Notes for editors
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Founded in 1976, The Royal Academy of Engineering promotes the engineering and technological welfare of the country. Our fellowship – comprising the UK’s most eminent engineers – provides the leadership and expertise for our activities, which focus on the relationships between engineering, technology, and the quality of life. As a national academy, we provide independent and impartial advice to Government; work to secure the next generation of engineers; and provide a voice for Britain’s engineering community.
For more information please contact
Jane Sutton at The Royal Academy of Engineering
Tel. 020 7766 0636