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Less than a tenth of UK deep tech companies are founded solely by women, reveals the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub

First ever report on the state of the national deep tech ecosystem from the Royal Academy of Engineering shows that UK deep tech is dominated by men, with just 7.5% of UK deep tech companies founded…

2023 LBEEP Celebration And HE Bursary Awardees

Six £15,000 bursaries awarded to talented engineering students from the West Midlands

Awardees announced at an event held at WMG in Coventry to celebrate the Lord Bhattacharyya Engineering Education Programme.

Academy launches Culture+ – a self-help tool for engineering startups and scaleups to reap the benefits of an inclusive company culture

The online interactive resource will help growing companies to embed equality, EDI into their workplace.

New Fellows 2023

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 David Phoenix OBE DL FREng

Professor David Phoenix’s bio-molecular engineering research on soft matter and its interface with medical devices is advancing drug design and improving thousands of people’s lives through new pulmonary treatments.

Dr Marlene Kanga AO FREng

Dr Marlene Kanga, an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to engineering, is an inspiring leader, listed among Australia’s top women engineers. She was the National President of Engineers Australia (2013) and President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (2017-2019).

Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan FREng

Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan is a multi-award-winning academic entrepreneur who invented and developed the world’s most accurate battery-free radio frequency identification tracking based on his PhD.

Jonathan Baggs FREng

Jon Baggs is one of the most experienced nuclear safety consultants in the country, leading on first of type, multi-million-pound safety cases, including the intermediate level waste store at Hunterston A power station.

Professor Wyn Meredith FREng FLSW

Professor Wyn Meredith has made outstanding contributions to industrial engagement in UK semiconductor device research over a 30-year career.

Professor Richard Miller FREng

As Founding President of Olin College of Engineering in the US in 1999, Professor Richard Miller is credited with developing a higher education institution renowned for its excellence in engineering education that has had profound transformational global impact.

Professor Ruth Cameron FREng

Professor Ruth Cameron has an outstanding 30-year track record of pioneering world-class interdisciplinary research. Her transformative work has impacted the fields of medical materials, pharmaceutical engineering, and polymer engineering.

Professor Michael Clinch FREng

Professor Mike Clinch is an influential industrial leader with over 25 years of experience in advanced materials and high-value manufacturing organisations.

Professor Bikash Pal FREng

Professor Bikash Pal is internationally known for innovations and engineering achievements contributing to the stability and control of power networks with renewable generation.

Professor Richard Dawson FREng

Professor Richard Dawson is an outstanding engineer, internationally recognised for his work on climate change adaptation of cities and infrastructure.

Peter Dearman FREng

Peter Dearman is renowned for his leadership of railway electrification and system safety for the UK rail network and is regarded by many peers as the leading rail electrical and mechanical engineer of his generation.

Professor Viola Vogel FREng

Professor Viola Vogel discovered the first high-resolution structural mechanisms about how nature exploits proteins as force-regulated nanoscale mechano-chemical switches, validated them in cell culture, and now translates them towards medical applications.

Dr Robert Deaves FREng FLSW

Dr Rob Deaves has made outstanding contributions to robotics research, development and academia-industry collaboration.

John Downes FREng

John Downes has shown exceptional leadership in the power generation sector through a period of immense change. He was responsible as design authority across a portfolio of major Thermal and Renewable generation projects including Offshore and Onshore Wind, CCGT and Energy from Waste technologies.

Dr Marc Harper FREng

Dr Marc Harper is the leader of the wireless development team for Surface and Microsoft, where he oversees the design and implementation of wireless technologies for various products and devices.

Dr Rosemary Francis FREng

Dr Rosemary Francis is a technologist and entrepreneur who built and sold a world-class software business, where she invented and took to market unique products that solved important problems in high-performance computing.

Professor Robert Killey FREng

Professor Robert Killey has made pioneering contributions to optical fibre communications technology, in the areas of fibre nonlinearity and the applications of digital signal processing in optical transceivers.

Professor Michael Fitzpatrick FREng

Professor Michael Fitzpatrick is an internationally respected materials engineer renowned for his contribution to the development and application of experimental stress analysis.

Professor Sean Gong

Professor Sean Gong is a computer vision and machine learning scientist. He pioneered person re-identification and video behaviour analysis for law enforcement.

Professor Alex Frangi FREng

Professor Alex Frangi pioneered computational medicine with internationally leading contributions in fundamental and translational computational medical imaging and image-based computational medicine.

Professor Stepan Lucyszyn FREng

Professor Stepan Lucyszyn is world renowned for his pioneering work in microwave engineering.

Professor Ashwani Gupta FREng

Professor Ashwani Gupta is a leading international authority on swirl flows and volume distributed combustion.

Professor David Greenwood FREng

Professor David Greenwood is currently working on delivery mechanisms and funding proposals to provide the next-generation skills needed by the future automotive industry.

Air Vice-Marshal Simon Ellard CB FREng

Air Vice-Marshal Simon Ellard has a distinguished career as a senior engineering leader in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and internationally in many project director roles, spanning over 30 years.

Dr Caroline Hazlewood FREng

Dr Caroline Hazlewood leads the highly successful Flood and Water Management Group at HR Wallingford and oversees the flood modelling software distribution business in Italy and Malaysia.

Dr Simon Harrison FREng

Dr Simon Harrison is a leading voice in public policy around engineering’s implications in energy transition and decarbonisation.

Professor Graham Hutchings CBE FREng FRS

Professor Graham Hutchings is distinguished for his work pioneering the use of gold catalysts. He was the first to predict and subsequently demonstrate that gold would be a highly effective catalyst for acetylene hydrochlorination to produce vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which is now commercialised extensively in Asia.

Dame Angela McLean DBE HonFREng FRS

Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS is the Government Chief Scientific Adviser having taken up the role in April 2023. She is also Head of the Government Science and Engineering Profession.

Ian Funnell FREng

Ian Funnell is Chair of the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory, Chair of the NG Bailey Group, Chair of the Energy Futures Laboratory at Imperial College London, and advisor to the Chair of Hitachi Europe.

Professor Felix Schmid FREng

Professor Felix Schmid is highly respected for championing systems engineering in railway projects and operations and for creating and developing the first advanced education programme for the railway industry.

Professor Wenfei Fan FREng FRS FRSE

Professor Wenfei Fan is distinguished for developing new data management theories and applying them to practice through commercial systems and products.

Dr Andrew Mackintosh FREng

Dr Andrew Mackintosh has a distinguished career leading and supporting organisations that are at the forefront of scaling up and commercialising new technology.

Professor Julian J Bommer FREng

Professor Julian Bommer is a civil engineer who works at the interface between Earth sciences and geotechnical and structural engineering, with a specific focus on mitigation of the risks posed by natural and induced earthquakes.

Professor Ahmed Kovacevic FREng

Professor Ahmed Kovacevic is internationally renowned for pioneering methods and tools to design rotary positive displacement machines. His sustained and distinguished career has allowed him to make an outstanding contribution to the compressor industry.

Professor Paul Needham FREng

Professor Paul Needham is recognised internationally for his outstanding contributions to solving Engineering problems in aerospace design and manufacture across multiple aircraft platforms.

Professor Bill O'Neill FREng

Professor Bill O’Neill is widely acknowledged as a leading expert in the field of high-power lasers and their use in materials processing. He founded the Centre for Industrial Photonics at Cambridge University, focusing on delivering new laser-based manufacturing solutions to industry.

Professor Timothy O'Farrell FREng

In wireless communications, Professor Timothy O’Farrell has made significant contributions in waveform and energy-efficiency design for radio access networks (RANs).

Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE HonFREng FRS

Professor Jim Al-Khalili is a well-known author, broadcaster and science communicator. He is a past president of the British Science Association and a recipient of the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday and Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medals, the Institute of Physics Kelvin medal and the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.

Gwen Parry-Jones OBE FREng

A chartered physicist, Gwen Parry-Jones OBE FREng has invested her working life in delivering large engineering projects across the full nuclear enterprise.

Professor John Dear FREng

Professor John Dear is an outstanding international leader in developing and applying innovative speckle strain mapping techniques to high-speed impact of composite structures for aircraft, structural health monitoring of critical engineering components for power-stations and blast resistance of laminated glass structures for landmark buildings.

Professor Keith Worden FREng

Professor Keith Worden is a world-leading authority in structural dynamics, notably in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and structural health monitoring.

Professor Harish Bhaskaran FREng

Professor Harish Bhaskaran is distinguished for his research achievements in engineering nanoscale devices including breakthrough photonic or neuromorphic computing and displays.

David Quarton FREng

David Quarton is a leading light in wind energy engineering. He led a team of around 100 engineers who designed 20 multi-megawatt turbines for customers in Europe, the US, China, and Korea.

David Riordan FREng

David Riordan is an exceptional engineer who has developed an international reputation in the field of aerospace engine nacelle design, analysis and testing.

Professor Catriona Savage FREng

Professor Catriona Savage has risen quickly within the naval architecture profession, making an impact in industry, academia and the professional institutions.

Dr Chris Robinson FREng

Dr Chris Robinson is recognised internationally as an expert in turbomachinery and for having built up PCA Engineers, a UK-based SME, into one of the world’s leading, independent consultancy businesses in gas turbine and turbomachinery design.

Professor Malcolm Macdonald FREng FRSE

Professor Malcolm Macdonald is distinguished through his role in shaping the future of the space sector, both nationally and internationally.

Professor Ashwin Seshia FREng

Professor Ashwin Seshia has made significant contributions to the fields of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensor systems.

Dr Jon-Paul Sherlock FREng

Dr Jon-Paul Sherlock is a highly influential chemical engineer, differentiated throughout his career in pharmaceuticals by his passion for technical innovation.

Professor Iain Todd FREng

Professor Iain Todd is an international authority in the field of powder metallurgy and additive manufacture of metals and alloys. His work focuses on enhancing the manufacturing rate while simultaneously improving component quality and structural integrity.

Desmond Balmforth FREng

Des Balmforth is a chartered mechanical engineer with significant multidiscipline experience across manufacturing, engineering, project management and procurement.

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari FREng

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari is internationally renowned for research in digital manufacturing and works in partnership with industry to develop new techniques and solutions for digitalisation, instrumentation, in-process monitoring and real-time simulation of skill-intensive manufacturing processes, such as wing manufacture and engine assembly.

Jack Stockdale OBE FREng

Jack Stockdale OBE is an outstanding software engineer and technical leader who is recognised for the development of novel machine learning, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity methods and systems that are at the core of widely used commercial products for Darktrace, blinkx and Autonomy.

Dr Ken Sutherland FREng FRSE

Dr Ken Sutherland is a leading engineering figure at the interface between medicine, engineering and the life sciences in Scotland and the UK. His influence in this sector has translated into global medical products that bring benefit to clinicians, patients, researchers and the medical industry.

Professor Barbara Shollock FREng

Professor Barbara Shollock is a leading advocate for engineering through a range of activities, most recently as founding Head of the relaunched Department of Engineering at King’s College London.

Mark Wild OBE FREng

Mark Wild has more than 35 years of experience leading complex and critical infrastructure. Mark took up the role of CEO for Scotia Gas Networks, one of the UK’s largest gas distribution networks, in August 2022.

Professor Daryl Williams FREng

Professor Daryl Williams is an internationally recognised expert in particle engineering and inventor of novel powder surface characterisation instruments, globally commercialised by his company Surface Measurement Systems.

Professor Nadine Aubry FREng

Professor Nadine Aubry has made outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics, particularly turbulence, microfluidics and reduced order modelling and leadership in the global engineering community.

David Peattie FREng

David Peattie is a highly regarded international engineering leader in the energy sector. Since 2017, he has been Group CEO of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Dr Andy Wright FREng

Dr Andy Wright is recognised for his strategic leadership of research and technology and its commercialisation for BAE Systems UK, and for his broader leadership of the industrial, government and academic nexus for defence research and development.

Dame Kate Bingham DBE HonFREng

Dame Kate Bingham has spent 30 years building and investing in biotech companies as Managing Partner at SV Health Investors, one of the longest tenured biotechnology investors globally.

Lord David Willetts PC HonFREng FRS FMedSci

The Rt Hon. Lord Willetts is the President of the Resolution Foundation. He served as the Member of Parliament for Havant (1992 to 2015), as Minister for Universities and Science (2010 to 2014), and previously worked at HM Treasury and the No. 10 Policy Unit.

Christopher Young FREng

As Group Chief Engineer of Rolls-Royce Group, Chris Young is the senior functional leader for engineering across the whole company and is responsible for ensuring the safety and quality of all products and services delivered.

Dr Pavel Cheben FREng

Dr Pavel Cheben is a global leader in photonics, integrated optics science and engineering. His groundbreaking contributions in silicon photonics have fuelled fundamental advances across multiple technologies, enhancing both short- and long-range communication links, biomolecular sensing, and on-chip spectrometry.

Professor Bashar Nuseibeh FREng

Professor Bashar Nuseibeh has led fundamental research and development of many award-winning and high-impact software requirements technologies and their practical applications for the assurance of evolving and adaptive mission-critical systems.

Dr Dennis Ganendra FREng

Dr Dennis Ganendra, as an outstanding civil engineer, has grown his business to become one of the largest, award-winning multidisciplinary engineering consultancies in Southeast Asia.

Professor Vikram Deshpande FREng FRS

Professor Vikram Deshpande has made seminal contributions to the mechanics of engineering materials.

Professor Tim Abram FREng

Professor Tim Abram is internationally renowned in the field of nuclear engineering with specific expertise in nuclear reactor and fuel design.

Professor Wolfgang Marquardt FREng

Professor Wolfgang Marquardt is a pre-eminent member of the world’s process systems engineering community, having made seminal contributions across the entire spectrum.

Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE HonFREng FMedSci

Co-Founder of Lastminute.com, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho was influential in starting the UK’s dot com boom in the late 1990s. Today she is a businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant.

Professor Joby Boxall FREng

Professor Joby Boxall is a leading international authority on urban water engineering and is recognised for his research on drinking water distribution systems infrastructure.

Professor Georgios Giannakis FREng

Professor Georgios B. Giannakis has made pivotal and pioneering contributions to statistical signal processing, telecommunications, sensor networks, data science, graph learning, patents influencing wireless standards, and mentoring of young researchers.

Dr Joshua Macabuag FREng

Dr Josh Macabuag has provided technical advances in catastrophe risk modelling, quantifying disaster risk for renewable energy, via his own company, Renew-Risk and for developing countries, via the World Bank.

"Engineering is everywhere, but nowhere the same, and our new Fellows represent the great breadth and diversity of engineers who are striving to address some of the world’s most complex challenges."

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

"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

"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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