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Sep 22, 2020, 55 tweets

From leaders in transport and data to innovators working on lifesaving developments in medical research, meet the 53 talented engineers elected to our Fellowship today: raeng.org.uk/new-fellows-20… #RAEngFellows

Dr Rajapillai Ahilan is a technology and business leader who has led projects which set international standards for jack-ups, marine transportation and moorings. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Philip Blythe is a distinguished engineer who has made an outstanding contribution to the transport sector, and serves as Chief Scientific Adviser to @transportgovuk raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Philip Bond is a leading engineering and technology consultant whose work spans F1, Olympic sports technologies, sonar, and aerospace: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Serial entrepreneur @Bily_Boyle has developed technology with applications ranging from toxic gas detection to disease diagnostics - including the 2018 #MacRobertAward winning breathalyser for disease from @OwlstoneMedical: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Dr Julie Bregulla is an expert in construction regulation and the process of setting, reviewing and updating engineering standards and legislation: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Distinguished telecommunications engineer @andrewbud led the design of key aspects of the DECT standard - the foundation for the world market in cordless communications. He is currently undertaking pioneering work in biometrics: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Edmund Burke's research into decision support methodologies for complex environments has shaped the international research agenda, bridging the gap between scientific achievement and industrial practice: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor @jamesbusfield has spent 25 years working with industry to develop innovative elastomer products and improve the performance of the material. This includes helping tyre companies improve the fuel efficiency of their tyres: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Jon Carrotte has made outstanding contributions to gas-turbine combustor aerothermal technology. He was instrumental in developing the ‘Integrated OGV’ concept, enabling significant fuel burn reduction: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Dawn Childs is an accomplished engineer with experience in mechanical, aeronautical, and civil engineering, and was the first woman engineer in several officer posts in the RAF. She is currently UK Change Director at @nationalgriduk: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Visionary space engineer @craig_s_clark is renowned for his pioneering work on commercialising CubeSat micro-satellites: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Paul Clarke is CTO of Ocado - a new generation of robotics company that has developed and exported automation technology that radically changes the way in which we buy and receive our groceries raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Trevor Cross has played a key role in the technical and commercial success of the company now called Teledyne e2v, making it one of the UK’s leading high-tech companies with world-leading products in science, space and defence: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Yulong Ding is distinguished for work that has led to important innovations in new thermal energy storage materials, cryogenic energy storage, engine technology and temperature regulation technologies for rail and road vehicles: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor William Drury is distinguished for outstanding, innovative contributions to electric drives. He is highly influential to university/industry relations in the UK’s engineering community: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

David Edwards has worked for some of the largest international water and environmental companies. He specialises in membrane technologies, and contributed to the innovation, design and build of the largest ultra-filtration plant in the world: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Richard Elsy led major programmes that helped define the UK car industry, and is now applying his experience for national benefit through leadership of @HVM_Catapult, an internationally recognised centre for advanced manufacturing technology: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Leroy Gardner is a distinguished structural engineer whose research has underpinned design code developments in Europe, USA, and the Far East: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Philippa Gardner is an international leader in research on scalable reasoning about modern software systems, providing sound mathematical foundations and rigorous engineering techniques applied to real-world software: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Deborah Greaves is a world authority in marine renewable energy, an outstanding engineering leader and strategist in the higher education sector, and a major contributor to industry and society through her outreach activities: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Joseph Hajnal has pioneered major developments in medical imaging, in particular the development of novel approaches to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Yang Hao is distinguished for his seminal contributions to the fields of body-centric communication and to metamaterials, especially those employing spatial transformation: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Mark Harman founded the field of search based software engineering and shaped its direction over two decades. Most recently, his work formed the foundation of Facebook’s automated test design system Sapienz: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Complex systems architect @hopkira has successfully re-invented IT best practices for civilian biometrics, high volume websites, legacy modernisation and welfare delivery: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Kirill Horoshenkov is an internationally renowned expert in acoustics, covering problems including noise control, noise propagation outdoors, and remote sensing of open channel flows in rivers and buried pipes: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Dr Bryn Hughes has brought electronic and mechanical engineering together to develop new sensors for use in harsh environments, raised awareness of national IT security, and delivered state-of-the art manufacturing capability: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Naeem Hussain is one of the world’s leading bridge engineers and has been responsible for design leadership on many major bridges worldwide, including Stonecutter’s Bridge in Hong Kong: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Air Marshal Richard Knighton has had a distinguished career as an engineer in the RAF, achieving outstanding success in military aviation engineering, acquisition and strategic and programme management: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor David Larbalestier has undertaken seminal work in high-current, high-field superconducting materials for over 50 years, including the first filamentary Nb3Sn magnets that underpin high-frequency NMR instruments: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Peter Lee is preeminent in the fields of solidification and x-ray imaging. His work is revealing how microstructures evolve in alloys, bioactive-glasses and geological systems. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Kai Hong Luo has been responsible for the development of cutting-edge models and numerical methods across scales that have transformed energy system diagnostics, design and optimisation: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Stuart Lyon began his career researching atmospheric corrosion and protection of materials and is now a leading expert on corrosion and materials degradation: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Sandro Macchietto is an international leader in process systems engineering whose academic research, originating methods for simulation, design, control and optimisation of process systems, is widely applied in industry: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor @OkMatar is world leading in the modelling and simulation of complex, industrially-relevant multiphase flows, central to a wide range of industrial applications, covering oil and gas, manufacturing and fast-moving consumer goods: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Charles Ng is a civil engineer with expertise in the interaction of soils and structures. who collaborated with plant scientists to define the benefit of ‘greening’ Hong Kong’s steep slopes: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Anthony O’Brien is a civil engineer who has led the geotechnical design of projects including Wembley Stadium and Vancouver's Port Mann Highway. His work on interactions between climate and earthworks deformation is embodied in UK practice: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor @EannPatterson is internationally renowned for the development of photo- and thermo-elastic stress analysis for advanced manufacturing industrial clients. He is an expert in the use of composite materials in vehicles. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

An eminent senior leader in the defence and aerospace development and manufacturing sector, Colin Paynter has distinguished himself in leading some of the most challenging space programmes mounted in the UK. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor John Robertson has undertaken seminal work to develop industrially valuable electronic materials such as HfO2 and carbon nanotubes, allowing HfO2 to replace SiO2 as the gate oxide in CMOS transistors. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas developed techniques to drastically reduce power in integrated circuits, before focusing her research on biomedical applications - creating wearable medical technologies and neural interfaces: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Known for her fun adventures with new technology, @DrLucyRogers makes bespoke items that solve clients’ practical problems - from installing a Raspberry Pi into a robot dinosaur to 3D-printing miniature mannequins: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Dr Antony Rowstron is recognised for outstanding contributions to computer science, especially in the areas of distributed systems and storage. His work has impacted products including Microsoft Windows, Skype, and Azure Service Fabric: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

As CEO of @VisionRTLtd, Dr Norman Smith worked with his co-founders and clinical experts to develop the concept of surface-guided radiotherapy, which tracks patient position in real time without the need for permanent tattoos. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Richard Stone is one of the most recognised names in automotive engineering and internal combustion engines, with significant contributions to the international community as an educator, researcher, administrator and problem-solver: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Tong Sun has an international reputation in optical sensor technology. She leads research in photonics and instrumentation, and her work embraces civil, aerospace, railway, marine and safety critical areas of engineering: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli is distinguished for his contributions to future mobile and wireless communications including ad hoc networking, novel mobile architectures, massive MIMO, green communications and the Internet of Things (IoT): raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

A driver of technology innovation throughout her career, @draliv has deep cybersecurity and software engineering expertise that she has applied at board level in mission-critical, global businesses including banking and telecoms. raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Roger Wells was instrumental in improving the design, development and manufacture of axial compressors for industrial gas turbines, namely the improvement of the design of 5MW-15MW compressors: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Dr Charles Woodburn is Chief Executive of @baesystemsplcs, the UK based defence, aerospace and security company. He leads a team around the globe that develops, manufactures and supports major defence capabilities: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Professor Yong Yan has helped lower emissions and made combustion more efficient, contributing to innovations in electronic instruments that have had an important impact on the power industry around the world: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

International Fellow Dr Pan Hui, of Finland, has made significant contributions to multiple aspects of mobile computing and communications: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

International Fellow Dr Asad Madni, of the US, is distinguished for remarkable contributions in the development and commercialisation of sensors and systems, including the control system for Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

International Fellow Tan Sri Kuna Sittampalam, of Malaysia, co-founded HSS Engineers, one of the nation's leading engineering consultancies with many international projects and strong links with governments in India, UAE and elsewhere: raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-f… #RAEngFellows

Find out more about our new Fellows, explore their expertise, and discover how together we're using engineering to build a more sustainable society and inclusive economy that works for everyone: raeng.org.uk/new-fellows-20… #RAEngFellows

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