May 2025
Congratulations to the following Academy Fellows who have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society:
- Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng FRS
- Professor Judith Driscoll FREng FRS
- Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein Kt CBE FREng FRS
- Professor Jim Hall FREng FRS
- Professor Chennupati Jagadish FREng FRS
- Professor Graham Machin FREng FRS
- Professor Graham Reed FREng FRS
- Professor Daniel Rueckert FMedSci FREng FRS
- Dr Mallikarjun Tatipamula FREng FRS FRSE
Professor Kai Hong Luo FREng has been awarded the 2025 ASME George Westinghouse Gold Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Professor Michael Fitzpatrick FREng FLSW and Professor William Jones FREng FLSW have been elected Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales.
April 2025
Professor Cato Laurencin KCSL FREng has been appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Lucia.
Professor Dimitra Simeonidou OBE FREng has been awarded an OBE for services to communications technologies research and scientific policy.
March 2025
Professor Terence Langdon FREng received the 2025 William D. Nix Award at the Annual Meeting of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
Professor Stephen Richardson CBE FREng has been awarded the Trustees Medal by IChemE.
Ian Shott CBE FREng has been awarded the Greene Medal by IChemE.
Professor Ian Metcalfe FREng has been awarded the Sharma Medal by IChemE.
Professor Asad Madni FREng HonFRSE and Dr Fiona Rayment OBE FREng FRSE have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Professor Karen Scrivener FREng has been awarded the SUPSI Institute of Materials and Constructions Award.
Nicholas Donofrio FREng is to be awarded a a Technology and Innovation Leadership Award by La Scuola d’Italia de Guglielmo Marconi NYC.
Sir David McMurtry CBE RDI FREng FRS has been posthumously awarded The Engineer’s Impact Award for Innovation Excellence.
Dr David Braben OBE FREng and Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS have been inducted into the Ukie Hall of Fame.
February 2025
Professor Sir Ian Chapman KBE FREng FRS has been appointed CEO of UK Research and Innovation.
Professor Nick McKeown FREng has been awarded the 2025 Marconi Prize.
Phil Smith CBE FREng has been appointed Chair of Skills England.
Professor Martin Blunt FREng FRS has been elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS has been appointed Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology.
January 2025
Professor Ian Shanks OBE FREng FRS FRSE has been awarded the US National Academy of Engineering’s Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize.
December 2024
Dr John Lazar CBE FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, has received a Knighthood in His Majesty The King’s New Year Honours List for services to engineering and technology.
Congratulations to the following Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, who have also been recognised for their services to engineering research, industry and wider society:
Knights Bachelor
- Professor Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi CBE FREng FRS
- David Warren Arthur East CBE FREng FRS
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Professor Thomas Anthony Rodden FRS FREng
- Professor Rahim Tafazolli FREng
- Dr Peter Anthony Thompson FREng
- Professor Richard Andrew Williams OBE FREng FRSE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- Dr Mohamed Raouf Abdul Karim Al-Kattan FREng
- Dr Alan James Belfield FREng
- Carolyn Jane Griffiths FREng
- Professor Nicholas Jenkins FREng
- Professor Rachel Angharad Oliver FREng
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Professor Melissa Terras FREng
Professor Sir Jim McDonald GBE FREng FRSE been appointed Chair of Scottish Enterprise.
Roma Agrawal MBE HonFREng has received an honorary degree from the University of York.
Professor David Phoenix DL OBE FREng has been appointed Vice Chancellor of the Open University.
Professor Daniel Rueckert FREng FMedSci has been awarded Germany’s most important research award, the €2.5 million Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation.
Dr John Cioffi FREng and Professor Andrea Goldsmith FREng have been elected to the Fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors.
November 2024
Dr Marlene Kanga AO FREng has been awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal at the Engineers Australia Excellence Awards.
Professor Eva Sorensen MBE FREng has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Sir Robin Saxby FREng FRS has been inducted into the City of London Engineering Hall of Fame.
October 2024
Nick Donofrio FREng has been awarded the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Percy Pierre Lifetime Achievement Award. Nick has also been named a Sigma Xi Fellow.
Professor Philippa Gardner FREng has been awarded the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal.
Professor Mike Davies FREng FRSE has been awarded the 2024 IET Achievement Medal in Signal Processing.
Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS has been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024.
Professor Sir Jim McDonald GBE FREng FRSE has been inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.
Nicholas Winser CBE FREng and Dr Simon Harrison FREng have been appointed to the Government’s Clean Power 2030 Advisory Commission.
Professor Colin Bailey CBE FREng has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution award at the UK Social Mobility Awards 2024.
September 2024
Dr John Lazar CBE FREng has been confirmed as President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The Academy elected 71 new Fellows at the 2024 AGM.
Professor Richard Parker CBE FREng has received the Singapore President’s Science and Technology Medal. It was presented in Singapore by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Professor Eric Yeatman FREng has been appointed as Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow, starting January 2025.
Mark Cutifani CBE FREng has been inducted into the American Mining Hall of Fame.
Professor Sir Iain Gray CBE FREng FRSE has been appointed Chair of the Futures West Foundation.
Professor Sir Jim McDonald GBE FREng FRSE has been announced as the new Chair of the Enginuity Group, succeeding Dame Judith Hackitt FREng.
August 2024
Professor Dame Molly Stevens DBE FREng FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Armourers and Brasiers Company Prize.
Andy Cowell FREng has been appointed Group CEO of the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team.
July 2024
Professor Yang Hao FREng has been awarded the IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award.
The Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci has been introduced to the House of Lords.
Professor Juergen Maier CBE FREng FRS has been announced as the inaugural Chair of GB Energy.
Professor Barry Evans FREng has been awarded the 2024 Aerospace Communications Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Julia King, The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS FMedSci has been appointed Chancellor of Cranfield University.
Professor Lord Ara Darzi HonFREng FRS FMedSci has been appointed to lead an independent review into the state of the NHS.
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE HonFREng has been announced as the new Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.
June 2024
Congratulations to the following Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, who have been recognised for their services to engineering research, industry and wider society:
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- Professor Karen Margaret Holford CBE FREng FLSW
- Dervilla Mary Mitchell CBE FREng
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Professor Peter John Clarkson FREng
- Professor Peter Moir Guthrie OBE FREng
- Professor Paul John Arton Howarth FREng
- Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng FREng
- Dr Alison Vincent FREng
- Professor Ian Hugh White FREng
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- Paul Malcolm McKinlay FREng
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Professor Clive Henry Buckberry FREng
- Professor David Simon Jones FREng
- Dr Lucy Elizabeth Rogers FREng
See the full Birthday Honours List
Leigh-Anne Russell FREng FRSE has been appointed Chief Information Officer and Global Head of Engineering at Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.
May 2024
Professor David Richardson FREng FRS has been awarded the 2024 Optica-IEEE Photonics Society John Tyndall Award.
Congratulations to the following Academy Fellows who have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society:
- Professor Martin Blunt FREng FRS
- Professor Brian Cantor CBE FREng FRS
- Dr Andrew Fitzgibbon FREng FRS
- Professor Richard Jardine FREng FRS
- Professor Keith Ridgway CBE FREng FRS
- Professor Tom Rodden FREng FRS
Professor Constantin Coussios FREng FMedSci has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor Tariq Durrani OBE FREng FRSE has been named the 2024 recipient of the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award.
Professor Raffaella Ocone OBE FREng FRSE has been named as the 84th president of IChemE, taking up the role in 2025.
Dr Paul Golby CBE FREng has been appointed Chair of the National Energy System Operator.
April 2024
Professor Alistair Borthwick FREng FRSE has been awarded the Zhongguancun Award for International Cooperation by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission.
Professor Zhibing Zhang FREng has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.
Warren East CBE FREng FRS and Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS have been awarded Honorary Degrees by the University of Oxford.
Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FREng FRS has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Professor Edmund Burke FREng, Professor Tony Cohn FREng and Professor Aimee Morgans FREng have been elected Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales.
Professor Polina Bayvel CBE FREng FRS has been honoured with the internationally renowned Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis).
Professor Amanda Petford-Long FREng has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Materials Research Society.
Professor Rebecca Lingwood FREng has been appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor at Lancaster University.
Professor John Cioffi FREng FRSE has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.