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Ballet performances, rubbish robots and engineering to save the planet: Academy announces new Ingenious public engagement projects

New round of Ingenious programme awards sixteen projects, with grants of up to £30,000 to support public engagement activities

Industrial Fellowships awarded for engineering projects to help support zero carbon energy

Seven talented engineering researchers have been awarded Industrial Fellowships for projects that address the journey to a sustainable zero carbon energy future.

Lessons to be learned from the Academy review of the UK National Security Risk Assessment

New report gives an engineering perspective on the methodology of the UK's 2019 National Security Risk Assessment.

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New Fellows 2022

The Fellowship of the Academy is an unrivalled community of leading business people, entrepreneurs, innovators and academics from every part of engineering and technology, who shape the Academy's work to build a sustainable society and inclusive economy that work for everyone.

Professor Daniel Alexander FREng

Professor Daniel Alexander is a computer scientist who develops computational techniques for impact in medicine often using imaging.

Adrian Baguley FREng

Adrian Baguley has been a career civil servant, having started as a graduate apprentice in the 1980s right through to his position as a 3* Director General today.

Dawn Bonfield MBE FREng

Dawn Bonfield MBE has an international reputation as an inspirational leader, championing diversity and inclusion, ethics, and sustainable development in engineering.

Simon Bowen FREng

Simon Bowen is a very experienced engineer and leader. With a career as an engineer in nuclear submarines, oil and gas, renewable energy and UK civil and defence nuclear, he has delivered success in a wide range of engineering disciplines.

Professor Ian Chapman FREng

Ian Chapman is the CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the largest fusion research organisation in the world, combining engineering in magnets, vacuum, cryogenics, robotics, materials, manufacturing and high-voltage power.

Professor Manish Chhowalla FREng

Professor Manish Chhowalla is a pioneer in the synthesis and application of hard carbon films which have amorphous structure with predominantly diamond-like bonding.

Professor Peter Vivian Coveney FREng

Professor Peter Vivian Coveney has made outstanding contributions across a wide range of scientific and engineering fields, including physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, computer science, high performance computing and biomedicine, much of it harnessing the power of supercomputing to conduct original research at unprecedented space and time scales.

Stuart Crooks CBE FREng

Stuart Crooks CBE is a brilliant hands-on engineer and an inspirational engineering leader.

Kevin Daffey FREng

Kevin Daffey is currently Director of Governmental Applications Engineering and Automation at Rolls-Royce Solutions based in Germany.

Professor Steve Dixon FREng

Professor Steve Dixon is notable for his internationally pioneering research into techniques for Non-Destructive Testing and ultrasonics and particularly for application of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) to industry.

Professor Hongbiao Dong FREng

Professor Hongbiao Dong is an outstanding engineer who has made pioneering and significant contributions in solidification modelling, as well as via the university responsibilities he has held.

Professor Suzanne Farid FREng

Professor Suzanne Farid is Professor of Bioprocess Systems Engineering at University College London, Deputy Head of Department (Education), Co-Director of the EPSRC Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing Hub and Director of the UCL-AstraZeneca Bioprocessing Centre of Excellence.

Stephen Featherstone FREng

Steve Featherstone has undertaken leadership roles in two safety-critical industries, gas and rail, and has served as President of the Engineering Institutions in both industries.

Professor Sebastian Geiger FREng FRSE

Recruited through Delft University of Technology's Excellence Fund in 2022, Professor Sebastian Geiger holds the Energi Simulation Chair in Sustainable Geoenergy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Kuldeep Gharatya FREng

Kuldeep Gharatya is a successful engineering leader with over 20 years’ systems, delivery and innovation experience in the transport sector.

Professor Mark Girolami FREng FRSE

Professor Mark Girolami is an inspirational global research leader in interdisciplinary data science, computational statistics and machine learning.

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng

Professor Susan Gourvenec is internationally recognised as an expert in offshore geotechnical engineering across academia and industry, and is a passionate educator and champion for equality, diversity and inclusion in engineering.

Antony Green FREng - Hydrogen Director, National Grid

Antony Green is an engineering innovator who has made substantial contributions to the water and energy sectors across the UK and internationally.

Professor Sai Gu FREng

Professor Sai Gu is distinguished for his pioneering work in developing a series of innovations, including a new generation of high velocity oxygen fuel thermal spraying technologies, replacing hexavalent chromium plating in critical engineering applications, developing practical pyrolysis routes for bioenergy, and digitalisation of process plants, each of which has improved the competitiveness of British companies.

Michael Haigh FREng

Distinguished for his outstanding technical expertise in water and environmental engineering, Michael Haigh has been responsible for the design, project management and delivery of a wide range of high-profile international projects.

Professor Christopher Hancock FLSW FREng

Professor Christopher Hancock is distinguished for outstanding contributions to medical engineering research, including the development and deployment of microwave and radiofrequency technology in clinical settings and techniques for minimally invasive surgery to successfully change treatment pathways and deliver better patient outcomes.

Dr Grahaeme Henderson OBE FREng

Dr Grahaeme Henderson OBE has a distinguished 40-year career in Shell International including as Engineering Manager in Syria, Chief Engineer in Nigeria, CIO of Upstream IT and Digital Business in The Netherlands, Country Chair and Managing Director in Brunei, and Senior Vice President Shipping & Maritime in the UK.

Graham Henley FREng

Graham Henley is Senior Vice President Engineering & Projects Capability at Shell. He leads the company's global engineering expertise, supporting oil, gas, chemicals and refining operations worldwide and the delivery of new hydrocarbon and renewables projects.

Professor Nicholas Higham FREng FRS

Professor Nicholas Higham is a distinguished numerical analyst, who has developed theory, algorithms and software that have had major impacts on engineering practice in fields ranging from structural engineering to financial modelling.

Professor David Hills FREng

Professor David Hills has made significant contributions to the fields of contact mechanics, fracture mechanics, and their intersection in the subject of fretting fatigue, one of the major causes of the nucleation of cracks.

Brian Holliday FREng

Brian Holliday is Managing Director of Siemens Digital Industries UK/Ireland and Chair of Siemens Industry Software UK.

David Holmes OBE FREng

Excelling in introducing new production technology and techniques, BAE Systems-Air Director David Holmes OBE created a world-leading manufacturing system making F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter fuselages.

Professor Brian Hoyle FREng

Professor Brian Hoyle is distinguished for his engineering leadership in innovation, business and communication of multi-spatial sensing technologies impacting healthcare, providing transformative insight in industrial process design and creating global consortia that have driven innovation.

Professor Bassam Izzuddin FREng

Professor Bassam Izzuddin is Professor and Head of the Computational Structural Mechanics Group at Imperial College London.

Koray Kavukcuoglu FREng

Koray Kavukcuoglu is recognised for his contribution and leadership in the domains of artificial intelligence and more specifically in deep learning, unsupervised learning, generative models, deep reinforcement learning, and applying artificial intelligence to real-world problems, while positively contributing to the engineering, scientific and ethical discourse and processes of a growing artificial intelligence research community.

Professor Kin K Leung FREng

Professor Kin Leung is internationally renowned in the field of communications networks.

Luke Logan FREng

Luke Logan is a dynamic and globally experienced engineering director who has held executive leadership positions with three of the UK's blue-chip engineering companies: Rolls-Royce, Weir Group and BAE Systems.

Wolf Mangelsdorf FREng

Wolf Mangelsdorf is Global Head of Design, Technology and Innovation at Buro Happold.

Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos FREng

Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos is one of the world’s foremost experts in flames ‘at the limit‘, creating knowledge that has enabled gas turbines for aviation jet engines to operate stably and safely at high altitude, while reducing the damaging emissions they produce.

Professor David Mba FREng

Professor David Mba is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise) at the University of the Arts London (UAL).

Professor Derek McAuley FREng

Professor Derek McAuley’s career has been principally in industry, with key periods spent in academia.

Chris McDonald FREng

Chris McDonald is a leader in engineering in the foundation industries. As Chief Executive, he rescued the Materials Processing Institute, re-founding this 75-year-old national institution as a not-for-profit, saving 70 jobs.

Professor Iqbal Mujtaba FREng

Professor Iqbal Mujtaba is a world leader in batch distillation, wastewater treatment and desalination and has authored several textbooks and edited books.

Professor Arokia Nathan FREng

Professor Arokia Nathan is a visionary technologist as reflected in his 600 technical publications, 6 books, and over 150 granted patents.

Professor Conchúr Ó Brádaigh FREng

Professor Conchúr Ó Brádaigh is a world-leading technologist in design of thermoplastic and thermoset composites and in the novel tooling and production processes required to manufacture these structures.

Christine Ourmieres-Widener FREng

Christine Ourmieres-Widener is a senior business leader in aviation with a distinguished international career.

Dr Yoge Patel FREng

Dr Yoge Patel is an exceptional engineer and business leader who has pioneered the use of autonomy and artificial intelligence in uncrewed systems.

Professor Adrian Podoleanu FREng

Professor Adrian Podoleanu has made outstanding contributions to engineering research, education and practice for the last three decades.

Professor Honor Powrie FREng

Professor Honor Powrie has made major engineering contributions over the past 25 years, principally through the development of innovative, world-leading condition-monitoring technology and software for a wide range of mechanical and aeronautical engineering applications.

Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon FREng

Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon is the most innovative leader of engineering education reform in the UK.

Robert Savidge FREng

Robert Savidge is an outstanding engineer and leader. His distinguished career with Rolls-Royce includes securing a major global aero-engine market share via his leadership of engine and technology programmes.

Moazzam Shamsi FREng

Moazzam Shamsi is a global expert in industrial automation, sensors, communications protocols, and solutions architectures for process manufacturing. He has developed multiple standards, tools and best practices that have been adopted industry-wide over the last 3 decades in support of mainstreaming emerging technologies.

Professor Qiang Shen FLSW FREng

Professor Qiang Shen is distinguished for world-leading and groundbreaking research and development of computational intelligence methodologies for data modelling and analysis, particularly for approximate knowledge-based critical intelligent decision support systems, with increased level of automation, efficiency and reliability.

Gaven Smith FREng

Gaven Smith is a distinguished and internationally respected engineering leader. He is currently the Director General for Technology at GCHQ: one of the UK’s intelligence and security agencies. His role is one of the most senior engineering roles in UK government.

Dr Uwe Stein FREng

Dr Uwe Stein is a key developer of digital displacement (DD) hydraulic machines, a technology that won the 2015 MacRobert Award. Uwe is a prolific inventor, named on more than 36 patent families. He is a team builder and motivator — not only in Artemis, a company he helped to build, but also at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Nikola Stosic FREng

Professor Nikola Stosic is widely recognised as the world’s leading authority on twin-screw compressors and expanders. His contribution to engineering covers almost every aspect of their design and manufacture, as well as how they are used in the many industrial and commercial applications involving expansion and compression processes.

Professor Danail Stoyanov FREng

Professor Danail Stoyanov is a Professor of Robot Vision at UCL and Director of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences. He is an international research leader on surgical AI and robotics, and has pioneered the development and translation of vision algorithms for surgical scene understanding, surgical data science and robot control.

Judith Sykes FREng

Judith Sykes is a Senior Director of Expedition, an innovative engineering consultancy, where she leads on infrastructure and sustainability planning, providing strategic advice to government, infrastructure bodies and private developers on sustainable infrastructure policy, strategy and design.

Professor James Roy Taylor FREng FRS

Professor James Roy Taylor is widely acknowledged for the development of diverse laser systems which have been commercially exploited, underpinning a vast array of technological applications.

Professor Niki Trigoni FREng

Professor Niki Trigoni is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Oxford and leads cyber physical systems research across the Department of Computer Science. She has pioneered award-winning positioning systems for indoor spaces where GPS does not work, which are uniquely scalable.

Professor Sergei Turitsyn FREng

Professor Sergei Turitsyn is distinguished by his world-leading applications of nonlinear science for innovative photonic technologies.

Alexander Van Someren FREng

Alex van Someren is an engineer who has made substantial contributions to the UK computing industry, computing education and the commercial use of cryptography.

Henning von Spreckelsen FREng

Henning von Spreckelsen has worked in senior management positions in companies large and small, with experience in chemicals, plastics, automation and packaging, as well as founding several engineering-based companies, applying a world-class manufacturing approach.

Chris Waldon FREng

The quest for commercial fusion power is universally recognised as one of the most exacting that we face as engineers. Extremities of operation, complexity of design and an inability to prototype combine to make it a truly daunting prospect. Chris Waldon has devoted himself to this challenge through a succession of engineering leadership roles within UKAEA at JET and latterly as Chief Engineer and Deputy Director of STEP.

Professor Roger Woods FREng

Professor Roger Woods is an inspirational leader in research who throughout his career, has demonstrated a flair for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Rebecca Enonchong FREng

Rebecca Enonchong is one of the most influential technology entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Through her own technology leadership of software pioneer Appstech, and through the development of a pan-African ecosystem of angel investors, incubators

Professor Andrea Goldsmith FREng

Professor Andrea Goldsmith was previously the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she is now Harris Professor Emerita.

Professor Chennupati Jagadish FREng

Professor Chennupati Jagadish is a pioneer in applying nanotechnology to semiconductor optoelectronic sources and detectors. He has made significant contributions to semiconductor lasers, optoelectronic integration and nanowire devices.

Dr Kinam Kim FREng

Dr Kinam Kim serves as Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology(SAIT) in Samsung Electronics. Prior to the current role as Chairman since December 2021, Dr Kim served as CEO and Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics and Head of Samsung Electronics Device Solutions Division, overseeing global semiconductor businesses.

Dr Mallikarjun Tatipamula FREng

Dr Mallik Tatipamula has been a trailblazer in the telecommunications industry, and his contributions resulted in major advances and new directions.

Dr Grazia Vittadini FREng

Prior to joining Rolls-Royce in November 2021, throughout her nearly 20-year career at Airbus, Grazia Vittadini covered a broad range of operations from Commercial Aircraft, Defence and Space to Technology and Innovation across the company.

Professor Guangwen Xu FREng

Distinguished for his academic leadership and pioneering work in the field of chemical engineering, Professor Guangwen Xu has made significant research contributions to several innovative thermochemical conversion processes related to product-directive or/and process-intensified use of fossil and renewable resources.

Dr Nike Folayan MBE HonFREng

Dr Nike Folayan MBE is chartered electronics engineer with a doctorate in electronics engineering. She is a Fellow of the IET. Nike is currently Technical Director and the Technical Discipline Leader for Communications and Control at WSP. She is also a technical blogger on SMART technology systems.

Professor Hannah Fry HonFREng

Professor Hannah Fry is a professor in the mathematics of cities at UCL. In her day job, she uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, and has worked with governments, police forces, health analysts and supermarkets.

Indro Mukerjee HonFREng

Indro Mukerjee is, since May 2021, CEO of Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. He is a highly experienced technology executive and business leader with a track record of leading businesses of all sizes across the world – from publicly listed and multinationals to new venture and private equity-backed technology companies.

Damilola Ogunbiyi HonFREng

Damilola Ogunbiyi is a sustainable energy advocate. She is the Chief Executive Officer and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy.

Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci HonFREng

Sir Patrick Vallance was appointed as the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) in 2018 and as National Technology Adviser in 2020. Before joining government he was Global President of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

"We want to celebrate the UK’s engineers and showcase how they are improving lives. This new research emphasises the economic impact of the sector across the UK, revealing how important engineering is for employment and prosperity in a wide range of regions."

Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering

"We hope we can use the insights in this global overview of the engineering response to COVID-19 to better integrate engineering skills and habits of mind into resilience policies and structures around the world, to improve our recovery from the virus, and to help us on the path to a safer, more prepared and resilient future."

Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng, Chair of the Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness board

"In an uncertain world, one thing is certain – engineering skills, vision and leadership will play a crucial part in addressing the escalating domestic and global challenges that we face today."

Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

"The global impact these vibrant and creative innovations have already had on their respective sectors and society at large is cementing UK engineering’s leading role on the world stage. It goes to show quite how far-reaching UK engineering now is."

Professor Sir Richard Friend FREng FRS, Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award judging panel

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