Academics join Royal Society of Edinburgh
Seven members of University staff have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
They join a prestigious Fellowship of more than 1,600 individuals from the UK and abroad who have demonstrated significant achievements in a broad range of fields.
Edinburgh Fellows
The Edinburgh staff members included in the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s 2017 intake are:
- Professor Timothy John Aitman, Professor of Molecular Pathology and Genetics and Director of Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
- Professor Christina Anne Boswell, Professor of Politics
- Professor Harald Haas, Professor of Mobile Communications
- Professor Neil Bruce McKeown, Crawford Tercentenary Professor of Chemistry
- Professor Elizabeth Jane Norman, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health
- Professor Alexander William Tudhope, Head of School of GeoSciences and Professor of Climate Studies
- Professor Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature
Each newly elected Fellow has been nominated on their exceptional and extensive achievements; it is a great honour to welcome such a range of outstanding individuals to the Fellowship. In joining the RSE Fellowship, they will strengthen the Society’s capacity to advance excellence across all areas of public life in Scotland and further afield.