The group consists of 60 Fellows, seven International Fellows and five Honorary Fellows, each of whom has made exceptional contributions to their own sector, pioneering new innovations, leading progress in business or academia, providing high level advice to government, or promoting wider understanding of engineering and technology.
This year’s new Fellows reflect the Academy’s ongoing Fellowship Fit for the Future initiative announced in July 2020, to drive more nominations of outstanding engineers from underrepresented groups ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2026. This initiative sees the Academy striving for increased representation from women, disabled and LGBTQ+ engineers, those from minority ethnic backgrounds, non-traditional education pathways and emerging industries, and those who have achieved excellence at an earlier career stage than normal.
The new Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at a special ceremony in London on 8 November, when each Fellow will sign the roll book. In joining the Fellowship, they will add their unique capabilities to the Academy’s mission to harness the power of engineering to create a sustainable society and an inclusive economy for all.
Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “I am delighted to welcome such an array of enormously talented people to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. From industry and enterprise to education and government – both national and international – these are some of our most pioneering and distinguished engineers and technologists.
“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. The combined connectivity, professionalism, experience and wisdom of the new Fellows who join us today will greatly enrich the expertise and support we can provide to the government and to society in general.”
“Engineers have a huge role to play in the future success of our world, from production and helping underpin stable economic growth to decarbonisation," said Brian Holliday. "The Royal Academy of Engineering brings together the best of our profession, championing engineering careers, engineering contribution and engineering diversity. I’m genuinely delighted to be elected a fellow at this time to play my part with the support of Siemens, whose goals are aligned in many ways to those of the Royal Academy of Engineering.”
Also recognised were Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s chief scientific adviser during the Covid pandemic, who was made an Honorary Fellow, and David Holmes OBE, Advanced Project and Technologies and Manufacturing Director at BAE Systems' Air division.
Full list of winners
Fellows (FREng)
Professor Daniel Alexander
Professor of Imaging Science, Department of Computer Science, UCL; Co-Founder of Queen Square Analytics
Adrian Baguley
Deputy Chief Executive, Defence Equipment & Support, Ministry of Defence
Dawn Bonfield MBE
Director, Towards Vision; Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, King’s College London; Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineering, Aston University
Simon Bowen
Nuclear Industry Advisor to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for BEIS
Professor Ian Chapman
CEO, UK Atomic Energy Authority
Professor Manish Chhowalla
Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
Professor Peter Vivian Coveney
Professor of Physical Chemistry, UCL
Stuart Crooks CBE
Managing Director, Hinkley Point C
Kevin Daffey
Director of Governmental Application Engineering and Automation, Rolls-Royce Solutions
Professor Steve Dixon
Professor and Director of the Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics, University of Warwick
Professor Hongbiao Dong
Professor of Materials Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair, University of Leicester
Professor Suzanne Farid
Professor of Bioprocess Systems Engineering, UCL
Stephen Featherstone
Managing Director, Sachle Consultants Ltd; Chair, Fish Plate Joint Alliance; Non-Executive Director, CC Infrastructure Services
Professor Sebastian Geiger FRSE
Professor for Sustainable Geoenergy, Delft University of Technology
Kuldeep Gharatya
Head of Engineering, Major Programmes Directorate, TfL
Professor Mark Girolami FRSE
Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge; Chief Scientist, Alan Turing Institute
Professor Susan Gourvenec
Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technology, Intelligent and Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton
Antony Green
Hydrogen Director, National Grid
Professor Sai Gu
Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (China), University of Warwick
Michael Haigh
Chair of the World Economic Forum Infrastructure Industries Governors and the former Chief Executive of Mott MacDonald
Professor Christopher Hancock FLSW
CTO and Founder, Creo Medical Group plc; Chair in Medical Microwave Systems Research, Bangor University
Dr Grahaeme Henderson OBE
Chair, ‘Together in Safety' Global Shipping Industry Foundation
Graham Henley
Senior Vice President Engineering and Projects Capability, Shell
Professor Nicholas Higham FRS
Richardson Professor of Applied Maths and Royal Society Research Professor, University of Manchester
Professor David Hills
Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Brian Holliday
Managing Director, Siemens Digital Industries UK
David Holmes OBE
Advanced Project and Technologies and Manufacturing Director, BAE Systems-Air
Professor Brian Hoyle
Professor (part-time), University of Leeds
Professor Bassam Izzuddin
Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics, Imperial College London
Koray Kavukcuoglu
VP of Research & Technology, DeepMind
Professor Kin K Leung
Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology, Imperial College London.
Luke Logan
Director, Luke Logan Consulting Ltd
Wolf Mangelsdorf
Director, Global Head of Design, Technology and Innovation, Buro Happold
Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos
Hopkinson/ICI Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge
Professor David Mba
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise), UAL
Professor Derek McAuley
Professor of Digital Economy, University of Nottingham
Chris McDonald
Chief Executive Officer, Materials Processing Institute
Professor Iqbal Mujtaba
Professor of Computational Process Engineering, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching & Quality, University of Bradford
Professor Arokia Nathan
Co-founder and Director, Cambridge Touch Technologies
Professor Conchúr Ó Brádaigh
Head of School and Chair of Materials Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Christine Ourmieres-Widener
Chief Executive Officer, TAP Portugal
Dr Yoge Patel
Chief Executive Officer and Owner, Blue Bear Group
Professor Adrian Podoleanu
Head of the Applied Optics Group, Professor of Biomedical Optics, University of Kent
Professor Honor Powrie
Senior Director, GE Aviation
Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon
Deputy Vice Chancellor University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Robert Savidge
Consultant
Moazzam Shamsi
Global Director, Solutions Architecture, Emerson
Professor Qiang Shen FLSW
Professor of Computer Science and PVC, Aberystwyth University
Gaven Smith
Director General for Technology, GCHQ
Dr Uwe Stein
Director and Chief Engineer, Flowcopter Ltd; Knocktop Ltd
Professor Nikola Stosic
Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology, City, University of London
Professor Danail Stoyanov
Professor of Robot Vision, UCL
Judith Sykes
Senior Director, Expedition Engineering
Professor James Roy Taylor FRS
Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Imperial College London
Professor Niki Trigoni
Professor and Head of the Cyber Physical Systems, University of Oxford
Professor Sergei Turitsyn
Professor and Director of the Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University
Alexander Van Someren
UK Chief Scientific Advisor National Security; Honorary Professor, University of Manchester
Henning von Spreckelsen
Director, Plastecowood Ltd
Chris Waldon
Chief Engineer and Deputy Director, STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production)
Professor Roger Woods
Professor of Digital Systems, Queen's University Belfast
International Fellows (FREng)
Rebecca Enonchong
Founder and CEO, Appstech
Professor Andrea Goldsmith
Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Princeton University
Professor Chennupati Jagadish
Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
Dr Kinam Kim
Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics
Dr Mallikarjun Tatipamula
CTO, Ericsson Silicon Valley
Dr Grazia Vittadini
Chief Technology and Strategy Officer of Rolls-Royce
Professor Guangwen Xu
President and Professor, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology
Honorary Fellows (HonFREng)
Dr Nike Folayan MBE
Chair and Co-Founder, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers UK (AFBE-UK); Technical Director, WSP
Professor Hannah Fry
Professor in the Mathematics of Cities, UCL; author and presenter
Indro Mukerjee
Chief Executive Officer, Innovate UK
Damilola Ogunbiyi
CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy
Sir Patrick Vallance Kt KCB FRS FMedSci FRCP
Government Chief Scientific Adviser
