RSE Young Academy members named
The Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland has appointed 20 University of Edinburgh academics.
Edinburgh staff form 40 per cent of the Academy’s intake this year.
Launched in 2012, the Academy was created to bring together Scotland-based emerging leaders in a broad range of academic disciplines to address society’s most challenging issues.
This year’s cohort of 50, selected from more than 200 applications, joins 68 existing members.
Edinburgh appointees
Edinburgh academics joining the Academy are:
- Blanca Antizar-Ladislao, Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Luke Bisby, Senior Research Fellow in Structures and Fire
- Adam Bock, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
- Geoffrey Bromiley, Lecturer in Experimental Geoscience and Earth Material Science
- Michaela Dewar, Research Fellow in Psychology
- Marc Dweck, British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Fellow
- Duncan Forgan, Research Fellow for the Institute for Astronomy
- Emma Frow, Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
- Jens Hagendorff, Martin Currie Professor of Finance & Investment
- Andrea Hamilton, Research Fellow, Centre for Materials Science and Engineering
- Alexander Kagansky, Chancellor’s Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit
- Tobias Kelly, Reader in Social Anthropology
- Fiona McNeill, Research Associate, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
- Ingela Naumann, Lecturer in Social Policy/Deputy Director of the Graduate School
- Elizabeth Patton, Medical and Developmental Genetics Programme Leader, MRC Human Genetics Unit
- Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Lecturer in Informatics
- Valeria Skafida, British Academy Research Fellow, Centre for Population Health Studies
- Stewart Smith, Research Fellow, Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems
- Asier Unciti-Broceta, IGMM Academic Fellow, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre
- Tiffany Wood, Industrial Research Liaison, Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership.