Royal Academy of Engineering welcomes 75 new Fellows

“This year’s cohort will be joining a community of over 1,700 top engineers and innovators in the UK and around the world. Together, we ensure that bright ideas are supported, scaled and shared, turning ambition into innovation and innovation into impact. We aim to strengthen education, skills and inclusion to inspire and equip the engineers of today and tomorrow.” 

The complete list of Fellows elected in 2026 (in alphabetical order) is as follows:   

Fellows (FREng): 

• Professor Lourdes Agapito, Professor of 3D Vision, University College London; Co-Founder, Synthesia 
• Dr Rachael Ambury, Vice President of Research, De Beers Group  
• Mark Apsey MBE, Chief Executive Officer, CivicNetZero  
• Kirsty Armer, Non-Executive Director, AWE plc; Lay Member of Council, Lancaster University; Visiting Professor, Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester; Trustee and Director, The Nuclear Institute
• Will Arnold, Head of Sustainable Materials, Useful Simple Trust  
• Professor David Barber, Director, UKRI Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab, University College London  
• Dr Arnab Basu MBE DL, Chief Executive Officer, Kromek Group plc  
• Dr Chan Boodhai, Former Chief Industry Officer, Sustainable Markets Initiative; former Senior Business Advisor to the Chair and CEO, bp  
• Professor Martin Booth, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Oxford  
• Dr Loubna Bouarfa, Founder, FactTrace.ai; Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Member of the Board of Advisors, Oxford Internet Institute  
• Professor Sir Nishan Canagarajah, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester  
• David Coles, Chief Engineer, Department for Transport, UK government  
• Fiona Cousins, Chief Operating Officer, Total Design, Arup  
• Professor Richard Craster, Dean of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London  
• Dr Gio Cristofoli, Regional President, Caspian Central Asia and Türkiye, bp  
• Professor Peter Cummings, Bicentennial Professor, Heriot-Watt University  
• Professor Richard Curry, Associate Vice-President Research and Innovation and Professor of Advanced Electronic Materials, University of Manchester  
• Professor Dina D’Ayala, UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering, University College London  
• Professor Dino Distefano, Research Engineer, Anthropic; Professor of Software Verification, Queen Mary University of London
• Professor Alastair Donaldson, Professor of Programming Languages, Department of Computing, Imperial College London  
• Tim Dugher, Trustee, Science Museum Group; Director, Porterbrook Leasing Ltd  
• Stuart Ellis, Director of Technical and Safety Assurance, Head of the Engineering Fellowship, Rolls-Royce plc  
• Professor Barbara Evans, Professor of Public Health Engineering, University of Leeds  
• Professor Paul Stephen Fennell, Professor of Clean Energy, Imperial College London  
• Professor Danielle George CBE, Chief Scientific Adviser National Security, GCHQ; Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, University of Manchester  
• Professor Beverley Gibbs, Vice-President and President-Elect, Engineering Professors’ Council
• Professor Robert Henderson FRSE, Professor of Electronic Imaging, University of Edinburgh  
• Nigel Hirst, Chair, Haden Freeman Ltd  
• Professor Cathy Holt FLSW, Professor of Biomechanics and Orthopaedic Engineering, Director of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research Facility and Arthritis UK Biomechanics and Bioengineering Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University  
• Keith Hutchinson, Head of Professional Technical and Engineering Services, and Senior Consultant Whole Ship Design and Naval Architecture, Safinah  
• Lila Ibrahim, Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind  
• Dr Nick Johnson, Owner, GoodSportsSoftware; Founder and Chief Technology Officer, ip.access Ltd 
• Gareth Jones, Group Engineering Director, BAE Systems  
• Professor Clemens Kaminski, Professor of Chemical Physics and Head of Department, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge  
• Julian Leslie, Director of Strategic Energy Planning and Chief Engineer, National Energy System Operator  
• Neil Mantle, Director of Engineering, Technology, Safety and Quality, Rolls-Royce plc  
• Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer OBE FRSE, Buchan Chair in Sustainable Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University  
• Professor James Marshall, Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield; Founder Science Officer, Opteran Technologies Ltd  
• Vice Admiral Paul Marshall CBE, Director General, Portfolio and Plans, National Armaments, Ministry of Defence  
• Professor Rob Maunder, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, AccelerComm; Professor, University of Southampton  
• Mark Francis McAllister, Chair, Ofgem  
• Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering, University of Cambridge  
• Professor Tom Melham FRSE, Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford  
• Alison Norrish, Design Director and Fellow, Arup
• Professor Alan Partridge, Director of the Defence Materials Centre of Excellence, Sir Henry Royce Institute, University of Manchester  
• Professor Ian Reaney, Professor and Dyson Chair in Ceramics, University of Sheffield  
• Professor Jhuma Sadhukhan, Co-Director of Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts, University of Surrey  
• Dr Nina Maria Skorupska CBE, Non-Executive Director, GB Energy and Royal BAM Group  
• Professor Raul Vázquez Diaz, Senior Fellow in Fluid Mechanics, Rolls-Royce plc  
• Dr Dan Walker, President, Ocean Infinity  
• Professor Jun Wang, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College London  
• Professor Meihong Wang, Professor of Process and Energy Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield
• Dr Pengzhu Wang, Senior Consultant, Tension Technology International; Visiting Professor, China University of Mining and Technology  
• Professor Paul Wilcox, Professor of Dynamics, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol  
• Professor Jianping Wu, Professor, Tsinghua University  
• Professor Jianzhong Wu FLSW, Professor of Multi Vector Energy Systems and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Bath  
• Professor Anatoly Zayats, Professor of Experimental Physics, King’s College London  
• Professor Lidija Zdravkovic, Professor of Computational Geomechanics, Imperial College London  
• Professor Michalis Zervas, Professor in Photonics, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton  
• Professor Jie Zhang, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd

International Fellows: 

• Professor Anjan Bose, Regents Professor, Washington State University, US   
• Professor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished Professor and Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering, University of California, Irvine, US   
• Professor Ignacio Grossmann, R.R. Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, US   
• Dr Selda Gunsel, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice-President for Technology, Shell plc, US   
• Professor Sue Harrison, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation, University of Queensland, Australia; Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa   
• Dr Frank Haselbach, Senior Vice-President, Head of Propulsion Engineering, Airbus, France   
• Professor Dorothy Okello, Dean, School of Engineering, Makerere University, Uganda   
• Professor Ramesh Ramamoorthy, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, US   
• Professor John Rogers FRS, Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor, Northwestern University, US   
• Professor Moshe Yaakov Vardi FRS, University Professor and George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, Rice University, US

Honorary Fellows: 

• Katherine Bennett CBE, Chief Executive Officer, High Value Manufacturing Catapult   
• Saul Klein OBE, Co-Founder and Chair, Phoenix Court   
• Professor Desta Mebratu HonFRS, Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainability Transition, Stellenbosch University, South Africa   
• Professor Sile O’Modhrain, Professor in Performing Arts Technology, University of Michigan, US   
• Dame Hayaatun Sillem DBE, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Argentic Associates