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Fellows @ Work

The Society is keen to keep up to date with Fellows’ activities and by profiling them, where appropriate, seeks to increase collaboration and the cross-fertilisation of ideas. Click here to contact the newsletter editorial team with anything you would like to include on these pages.

Antonine Wall World Heritage Site Bid

Professor David Breeze, formerly of Historic Scotland, was instrumental in securing World Heritage Site status for the Antonine Wall.

Maxwell's Demon

Having read of Sir Michael Atiyah’s commitment to raising the profile of James Clerk-Maxwell in Scotland, RSE Fellow, Professor David Leigh contacted the Society to voice his support and to share information about related work he is pioneering.  Professor Leigh and his team at the University of Edinburgh’s Chemistry department have achieved the experimental realisation of a version of the famous ‘thought-experiment’, Maxwell’s Demon, conceived by Clerk-Maxwell nearly 140 years ago.

Chimpanzees - Cultural Creatures

Andy Whiten, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, University of St Andrews.

Molecular Nanometrology

Professor Duncan Graham has had a significant impact on the West of Scotland's life science sector. Appointed to a personal chair in the University of Strathclyde's Department of Chemistry aged just 33, Prof. Graham has built a research group of over 30 with funding of £3m to work in molecular nanometrology.

Experimental Haematology

Professor Tessa Holyoake is Scotland's leading pioneer in stem cell research in chronic myeloid leukaemia patients, and Director of the new Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital.