November 2024
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
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 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.
March 2024
Professor Yang Hao FREng has received the 2024 European Association of Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) Antenna Award for world-leading contributions in wireless.
Dr Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS has been awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence.
Sir Peter Bonfield CBE FREng has been appointed a Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Professor Karen Scrivener FREng has been awarded an honorary degree by Eindhoven University of Technology.
February 2024
Emeritus Professor Tom Stephenson FREng has been appointed as a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence for the School of Science & Technology at City, University of London.
Professor Karen Scrivener FREng was selected by the United Nations Secretary-General for the Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
January 2024
Professor Qiang Shen FREng FLSW has received the 2024 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award for developing data-driven approximate knowledge-based decision support systems and their applications.
Ursula Burns FREng has been awarded an Arthur W Page Award for Integrity in Public Communication.
December 2023
Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE has been awarded a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours list for services to engineering, to education and to energy. He has also been recently elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Professor Molly Morag Stevens FRS FREng has been awarded a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours list for services to medicine.
Read more about all the Fellows recognised in the 2024 New Year Honours list.
Professor Robert Langer FREng has been awarded the Dr. Paul Janssen Award for his pioneering research into biomedical compounds for drug delivery and tissue engineering.
Professor Paul Cannon OBE FREng and Professor S Ravi Pradip Silva CBE FREng have been elected as Fellows of the of the International Science Council.
Dame Judith Hackitt DBE FREng has been appointed Interim Chair of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
Professor Juergen Maier CBE FREng FRS has been appointed by the Labour Party to lead its review of infrastructure delivery.
Professor Yulong Ding FREng has been announced as a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award.
November 2023
Dr Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS has been awarded the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal.