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Explore the life and work of 'muscle man', physiologist Douglas Wilkie FRS, renowned for his work on the mechanics and thermodynamics of muscle contraction on our blog: #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/blog/2026/02/muscle-man/
The Royal Society offers its congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025, including Professor Susumu Kitagawa FRS and Professor Richard Robson FRS, who were honoured “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
The Royal Society offers its congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025, including Royal Society Fellow Professor John Clarke FRS. #NobelPrize #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
Professor Jane Hill OBE FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is an ecologist examining how species (particularly insects) are responding and adapting to Anthropocene environmental changes. #RSFellows
Professor Julian Hibberd FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a plant biologist who aims to understand mechanisms underpinning the evolution of photosynthesis. #RSFellows
Professor Graham Hatfull FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a microbiologist studying bacteriophages with a focus on those infecting Mycobacterium. #RSFellows
Professor Sue Grimmond FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Through measurements and modelling in cities across the world, her research is helping to advance understanding of the processes that result in urban warming. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/sue-g...
Professor Mike Giles FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a computational mathematician who has worked at the interface with both engineering and computer science. #RSFellows
Professor Kevin Foster FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is recognised for bringing ecological and evolutionary principles into microbiology to understand the human microbiome and other microbial communities. #RSFellows
Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein Kt CBE FREng FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an internationally-recognised contributor to computer science, and has undertaken leadership roles across public and professional service and education . #RSFellows
Professor Marie Edmonds FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her research seeks to understand the reservoirs and fluxes of volatile elements in Earth, and she has made advances in volcano monitoring, the geological carbon cycle and more. #RSFellows
Professor Judith Driscoll FREng FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her research focuses on obtaining the required performance of complex oxide thin films for industrial impact and uses novel nanoengineering and process approaches. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/judit...
Professor Gábor Csányi FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work in computational chemistry is focused on developing algorithms to predict the properties of materials and molecules from first principles. #RSFellows
Professor Jonathan Coleman FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a physicist and nanomaterials scientist who investigates the solution processing of 1D and 2D nanomaterials and their fabrication into films or composites. #RSFellows
Professor Jonathan Clayden FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His research group designs synthesises and characterises molecules with dynamic three-dimensional shapes that allow them to react in unusual ways or to display functional behaviour. #RSFellows
Professor Alessio Ciulli FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a structural chemical biologist and one of the pioneers and leading experts in targeted protein degradation. #RSFellows
Professor Xiaodong Chen FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a leader in interdisciplinary material science, renowned for his contributions to developing advanced bio-interfaced electronics that seamlessly integrate with rigid devices. #RSFellows
Professor Matteo Carandini FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His focuses on the computations performed by populations of neurons during sensory behavior, and on the circuits supporting these computations. #RSFellows
Dr Morris Brown FMedSci FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for transforming our understanding and treatment of Hypertension and its commonest cause, Primary Aldosteronism. #RSFellows
Professor Philip Boyd FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has fundamentally advanced understanding of the interactions between ocean biogeochemistry, Earth's carbon cycle, and climate. #RSFellows
Congratulations to all the new Fellows of the The Royal Society! Fantastic to see innovative work from across the biomedical sciences recognised #RSFellows
🎉 A huge congratulations to TERN's Advisory Board Chair, Professor @hugepossum.bsky.social on his appointment as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org for contributions to ecological modelling and applying it to real-world conservation challenges. Very well deserved!
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Professor Bernard P. Binks FRS becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society. His pioneering work in physical chemistry includes particle-stabilised emulsions and aqueous and oil foams. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/berna...
Professor Deborah Ashby FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is a statistician working to improve health in populations, explored the utility of novel Bayesian statistical approaches in practice including during the Covid-19 pandemic: #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/debor...
Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has established an international reputation for his development of functional materials, notably oxides for radiofrequency/microwave applications. #RSFellows
Congratulations to Prof Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net @ucleye.bsky.social on his election as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org in recognition of his invaluable contributions to scientific research in visual neuroscience #RSFellows @uclbrainscience.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She has made seminal contributions to AIDS research that have highlighted the disproportionate burden of HIV in young women in Africa & informed guidelines on HIV prevention. #RSFellows
Congratulations to Prof. Alessio Ciulli on his election to the Royal Society! #RSFellows @alessiociulli.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
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We are pleased to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. The group includes trailblazers from AI and electron microscopy to global health and neuroscience. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...
It's our #AnniversaryDay today! Anniversary Day celebrates the granting of our first Royal Charter in 1662. You can explore a digital version of our Charter Book in our Turning the Pages collection - see which Fellows' signatures you can spot! #RSFellows ttp.royalsociety.org//ttp/ttp.htm...
