The group consists of 60 Fellows, nine International Fellows and five Honorary Fellows.
They are drawn from every specialism from within the engineering and technology professions and cover sectors ranging from energy and defence to new materials. They have made exceptional contributions to their field: pioneering new innovations within academia and business, providing expert advice to government, and fostering a wider comprehension of engineering and technology.
This year’s new Fellows continue to 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. This commits the Academy to strive 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 18 November, when each Fellow will sign the roll book. In joining the Fellowship, they will lend their unique capabilities to achieving the Academy’s overarching strategic goal to engineer better lives.
Sir John Lazar CBE FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said:
“As we approach our 50th anniversary next year it’s a good time to reflect on how much we have achieved. The Academy is built on the foundation of our Fellowship, and that remains as true today as half a century ago. Our story began as a ‘Fellowship of Engineering’ of 130 Fellows including such pioneers as Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, Lord Hinton of Bankside and Sir Ove Arup, driven by the support of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.”
“Today’s cohort join a community of around 1,700 of some of the most talented engineers and innovators in the UK and around the globe. Their knowledge and experience make them uniquely well placed to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world, and our determination to advance and promote excellence in engineering remains undimmed.”
The complete list of Fellows elected in 2025 (in alphabetical order) is as follows:
Fellows (FREng)
- Professor Panagiota Angeli Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London
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John Armstrong Chief Executive, British Pipeline Agency Ltd
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Lydia Balogun-Wilson Regional Engineering Authority, bp
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Keith Beckett CBE Deputy Chief Executive and Technical Director, Ministry of Defence Submarine Delivery Agency; Head of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors
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Professor Donna Blackmond FRS The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Scripps Research
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Professor Feargal Brennan James Blyth Distinguished Professor of Offshore Engineering, University of Strathclyde
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Jon Butterworth MBE Chief Executive Officer, National Gas
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Dr Niall Caldwell Chair, Flowcopter Ltd
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Dr David Cole Director of Energy Strategy, Sizewell C
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Isabel Coman Director of Engineering and Asset Strategy, Transport for London
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Professor Malcolm Cook Professor of Building Performance Analysis and Dean of the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University
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Dr Rachel Cooke Director Integrated Supply Chain Efficiencies, Western Europe, Carlsberg Group
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Russ Dunn Chief Technology Officer, GKN Aerospace
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Professor Stephen Eichhorn Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol
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Dr Daniel Elford Chief Technology Officer, Merford; Co-Founder, Sonobex Ltd
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Professor Jaafar Elmirghani Chair in Communication Networks and Systems, Kings College London
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Sun Yan Evans Director (Flood Risk and Water Quality), Mott MacDonald
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Dr Ollie Folayan MBE Head of Process Engineering, Costain Group; Co-Founder, Association of Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers
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Professor David Gann CBE Chair, UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd
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Richard Grisenthwaite Executive Vice President, Chief Architect and Fellow, Arm
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Dr Sofia Guerra Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Themistoclea
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Professor Jon Heffernan Professor of Semiconductor Materials and Devices, University of Sheffield; Director, EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility
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Richard Hefford-Hobbs Founder and Chair, Cambridge Precision Ltd
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Professor Zara Hodgson Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute and Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Manchester
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Professor Simon Hogg Emeritus Professor of Renewable Energy, Durham University; Director, Green Energy Collective Ltd
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Professor Chris Johnson FRSE Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK government
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Nicola Johnson Director, NMJ Risk Consulting Ltd
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Professor John Kilner Senior Research Investigator, Department of Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London
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Professor Jonathan Knowles Professor of Biomaterials Science, University College London
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Professor Konstantinos Kontis Mechan Chair of Engineering, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Chetan Kotur Head of Technology and Innovation, Laing O’Rourke
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Air Marshal Paul Lloyd CBE Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Air Force
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Professor Haroun Mahgerefteh Professor of Chemical Engineering, University College London
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Professor Cecilia Mascolo Professor of Mobile Systems, University of Cambridge; Chief Scientific Officer, auryx
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Edward McCann Senior Director, Expedition Engineering
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Professor Jim McLaughlin CBE Director of the Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre, University of Ulster
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Professor Ian McRobbie Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Innospec Inc
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Professor Jovica V. Milanović Professor of Electrical Power Engineering, University of Manchester
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Professor (Anthony) John Moran Professor of Practice in Combustion Technology, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University
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Professor Alexandros Mouzakitis Director, Continuous Delivery for Quality and Compliance, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
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Professor Douglas Paul OBE FRSE Professor of Semiconductor Devices, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Professor Andrew Plummer Professor of Machine Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
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Professor Svetan Ratchev Cripps Professor of Production Engineering and Director of the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, University of Nottingham
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Professor Nick Ridler Fellow and Head of Science, Department of Electromagnetic and Electrochemical Technologies, National Physical Laboratory
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Professor Rajkumar Roy Dean Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University
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Professor Ronald Roy Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Oxford; Director of Research and Strategic Partnerships, Maine College of Engineering and Computing, University of Maine
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Dr Eleanor Schofield Director of Collections, Mary Rose Trust
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Professor Jennifer Schooling OBE Professor of Digital Innovation and Smart Places, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor Zoe Shipton OBE FRSE Professor of Geological Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde
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Dr David Smith National Technology Adviser, UK government
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Professor Sriram Subramanian Professor of Computer Science, University College London
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Mark Sutton Engineering Director and COO Licensing, Johnson Matthey
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Professor Swami Swaminathan Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Neil Thomas Founding Director, Atelier One Ltd
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Dr Paul Turner Chief Technology Officer, ThinkIQ Holdings
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Professor Andrea Vedaldi Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, University of Oxford; Research Scientist and Technical Lead, Meta
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Barbara Welch Programme Director, Mace
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Ollie Whitehouse Chief Technical Officer, National Cyber Security Centre
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Professor Marian Wiercigroch Sixth-Century Chair and Director, Centre for Applied Dynamics Research, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Professor Michael Wooldridge Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford
International Fellows (FREng)
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Professor Elsie Effah Kaufmann Dean, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Ghana
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Ilya Espino de Marotta Deputy Administrator, Panama Canal Authority
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Professor Linda Godfrey Manager, Circular Innovation South Africa, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Professor Yonggang Huang FRS Achenbach Professor of Engineering, Northwestern University
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Professor Chwee Teck Lim FRS NUS Society Professor, National University of Singapore
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Professor Muriel Médard NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Professor Ranjith Pathegama Gamage Director, Deep Earth Energy Laboratory and Professor of Sustainable Development of Energy and Resources, Monash University
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Professor Jin-Guang Teng President and Chair Professor of Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Dr Zhong Lin Wang Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology; Director, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems
Honorary Fellows (HonFREng)
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Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock DBE Space scientist, broadcaster and author
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Professor Prokar Dasgupta OBE King's Health Partners Foundation Professor of Surgery, Director of the Centre for Academic Surgery, Chair in Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation, Chair of the King's-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery King's College London; Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Guru Madhavan Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs, National Academy of Engineering
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Sir Ken Olisa OBE Chair, Restoration Partners; Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London
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Bernard Taylor CVO CBE DL Chair, UK Atomic Energy Authority
Notes for editors
- The Royal Academy of Engineering creates and leads a community of outstanding experts and innovators to engineer better lives. As a charity and a Fellowship, we deliver public benefit from excellence in engineering and technology and convene leading businesspeople, entrepreneurs, innovators and academics across engineering and technology. As a National Academy, we provide leadership for engineering and technology, and independent, expert advice to policymakers in the UK and beyond. Our work is enabled by funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, corporate and university partners, charitable trusts and foundations, and individual donors.