December 2025
Congratulations to the following Fellows, who have been recognised in the New Year Honours list for their services to engineering research, industry and wider society:
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- Professor Polina Bayvel CBE FREng. Royal Society Research Professor and Professor of Optical Communications and Networks, University College London. For services to Engineering and to Optical Communications.
- Dr Fiona Elizabeth Rayment OBE FREng FRSE. Non-Executive Director, Trustee and Nuclear Advisor. For services to Nuclear Engineering.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Professor Suzanne Farid FREng. Professor of Bioprocess Systems Engineering and Head of Biochemical Engineering, University College London. For services to Biochemical Engineering.
- Dr Luisa Maria Freitas Dos Santos FREng. Vice-President, Global Clinical Supply Chain, GlaxoSmithKline. For services to Pharmaceutical Engineering.
- Andrew James McNaughton FREng. Executive Director Infrastructure Projects, AWE plc. For services to National Infrastructure.
- Professor Sarah Catherine Sharples FREng, Lately Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport. For services to Transportation, to Manufacturing Research and to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- Dr Aderonke Matilda Adebiren (Roni) Savage FREng. Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Jomas Associates Ltd. For services to Young People, to Business and to the Construction Industry.
Professor Max Lu DL FREng has been elected an International Fellow of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Professor Patricia Thornley FREng has been appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Transport.
November 2025
Professor Laurence Williams OBE FREng FLSW has received the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat Public Service Medal in recognition of his significant contributions to nuclear safety in Singapore.
Professor Mark Rainforth FREng has been awarded the IMechE’s 2025 Tribology Silver Medal.
Dame Dervilla Mitchell DBE FREng has been elected to the Council of the Irish Academy of Engineering.
Professor Sir Cato Laurencin FREng has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award.
October 2025
Richard Rooley FREng has been awarded a Gold Medal by CIBSE.
Professor Bikash Pal FREng has been elected the President Elect for IEEE Power and Energy Society.
Professor Vincent Fusco CBE FREng FRS has been awarded the Parsons Medal by the Irish Academy of Engineering.
September 2025
The Academy elected 74 new Fellows at the 2025 AGM.
August 2025
Professor Charles Ng FREng has been awarded the Telford Gold Medal at the 2025 ICE Publishing Awards.
Professor Sir Cato Laurencin KCSL FREng has been awarded the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science from the European Academy of Sciences.
July 2025
Dr Anthony Rowstron FREng has been appointed Chief Technology Officer at ARIA.
June 2025
Professor Dame Julia King, The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS FMedSci has been appointed President of the British Science Association for 2025-26.
Professor Norman Fleck FREng FRS has been awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Timoshenko Medal.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB FREng has be named as the new Head of the Armed Forces.
May 2025
Professor Roger Woods FREng has been admitted as an Honorary Member to the Royal Irish Academy.
Professor David Jones MBE FREng FMedSci has been awarded the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Hanbury Medal.
Professor Dimitra Simeonidou OBE FREng has been appointed a Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission.
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 Roger Reed FREng has been named one of nine new Fellow-Ambassadors to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
Professor Sir 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.