18 Sep 2024
Engineering Professors elected as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows
New Fellows are nominated and elected by existing Fellows in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession
At its AGM on 17 September 2024 the Royal Academy of Engineering elected 71 leading figures in the field of engineering and technology to its Fellowship.
Professor Tim Denison and Professor Paul Shearing are amongst those elected. The Department’s Visiting Academic Professor Simon Weeks and Visiting Fellow Stephan Jefferis have also been elected as Fellows.
Each of the new Fellows has made exceptional contributions to their own sector, pioneering new innovations, leading progress in business or academia, providing high level advice to government, or promoting wider understanding of engineering and technology.
Dr John Lazar CBE FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, says: “Our new Fellows represent some of the most talented people in the world of engineering and are taken from the ranks of those who are aiming to address some of our most critical problems.”
Professor Paul Shearing, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies, Director of the ZERO Institute and Statutory Professor in Sustainable Energy Engineering, says, “I have been involved with The Royal Academy of Engineering since school, and my decision to take an undergraduate engineering degree was a result of the Academy’s ‘Headstart’ programme. Almost 25 years later, it is a huge privilege to have been elected a Fellow which recognises the importance of our research supporting the zero-carbon Energy Transition and the huge contributions of the diverse, talented team I have had the incredible opportunity to work with over that time.”
Professor Tim Denison, RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, says, “This recognition represents the efforts of a multi-disciplinary group of engineers, scientists, clinicians, and entrepreneurs to build new tools for neuroscience discovery and therapy prototyping. I would particularly like to thank the research participants that have volunteered over the years to participate in clinical studies; without them new frontiers of treatment could not be explored.”
The new Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at a special ceremony in London on 27 November, when each Fellow will sign the roll book.
Engineering Science Head of Department Professor Clive Siviour says, “I am absolutely delighted that two academic colleagues in the Department of Engineering Science have been elected to RAEng Fellowships, and further to hear of the election of two of our valued Visiting Professors. All have made outstanding contributions to both their own disciplines and to the wider Engineering community, and it is a source of great pride to the department to see them recognised in this way”.
