Edinburgh scholars are among the leading figures from academia, public service, business and the arts joining Scotland’s National Academy. Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics; Fiona Mackay, Professor of Politics and Director of genderEd; Michela Massimi, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Jo Shaw, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Prestigious group They join a prestigious group of 66 new Fellows who have demonstrated significant achievements in a broad range of fields. This year’s cohort join the current Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship whose varied expertise supports the advancement of learning and knowledge in Scottish public life. The new Fellows include former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, the US-based philanthropist and former pianist, Carol Colburn Grigor and Playwright, Screenwriter and Theatre Director, Zinnie Harris. Outstanding contribution New Fellows are elected each year through a rigorous five-stage nomination process. Each year we welcome a selection of nominated extraordinary individuals into the Fellowship and this year is no exception. The diverse range of achievements of these individuals will be an asset to the RSE and I am sure they will strengthen the RSE’s standing as a national academy committed to providing public benefit to Scottish society. I also welcome the increasing number of female Fellows to the RSE, something we have focused on improving in past years and part of our wider commitment to diversity. Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBEPresident of the RSE The Professors join other Edinburgh academics who have been elected as part of the 2018 group. The other recipients are: Philip Best, Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics; Siddharthan Chandran, MacDonald Professor of Neurology; Michael Davies, Jeffrey Hamilton Collins Professor of Signal and Image Processing; Elaine Dzierzak, Professor of Haematological Regeneration; Charles Ffrench-Constant, Professorial Fellow, Medical Neurology; Giles Hardingham, Professor of Molecular Neurobiology; Robert Henderson, Professor of Electronic Imaging; Catherine Heymans Professor of Observational Cosmology; Ruth King, Thomas Bayes' Professor of Statistics; Christopher Ponting, Professor of Medical Bioinformatics; Cathie Sudlow, Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology; Moira Whyte, Director, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research and Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine. Royal Society of Edinburgh Professor Douglas Cairns Professor Fiona Mackay Professor Michela Massimi Professor Jo Shaw Publication date 27 Feb, 2018
