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Dr Chris Masters CBE Senior Independent Director of John Wood Group PLC |
Dr Chris Masters CBE is currently Chairman of Energy Assets Group PLC of and of the Festival City Theatres Trust in Edinburgh. He also holds a number of other non-executive directorships, including Alliance Trust PLC, Speedy Hire PLC, The Crown Agents and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He was previously Chief Executive of Christian Salvesen PLC, Executive Chairman of Aggreko plc and Chair... |
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Professor Muffy Calder, OBE FRSE FBCS FIEE, Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland |
Professor Muffy Calder OBE is Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland and Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. She is a Royal Society Leverhulme Research Senior Fellow and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award Holder. Her research is in modelling and... |
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Professor Ian Boyd, FRSE |
Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA Ian Boyd is a Professor in Biology at the University of St Andrews. He has been appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for DEFRA. He has been chairman of the Marine Alliance or Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) and was Chief Executive of SMRU Ltd. His research field is in marine ecology with a specialisation in marine mammals and he has gained... |
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Dr John Brown, CBE, FRSE |
John has extensive experience in the life sciences sector. He is the former Chairman of BTG plc, CXR Biosciences Ltd and current chairman for Cell Therapy Catapult Centre, a non-executive Director of Vectura Group plc and Axis-Shield plc, and was a Director of Cambridge Antibody Technology plc until its acquisition by AstraZeneca. In the public sector he Chairs the Roslin... |
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Professor Nigel Brown, FRSE, CBiol, FSB, CChem, FRSC |
Nigel Brown is an Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh,where he was Head of the College of Science and Engineering 2008-2011. He is also the President of the Society for General Microbiology. He has been Chair for the Deans of Science and Engineering in Scotland since 2010. From 2004-2008 he was Director of Science and Technology at... |
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Professor Sir Ian Diamond FBA FRSE AcSS |
Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen Professor Sir Ian Diamond was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor on 1 April 2010. He was previously Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (a position he continued to hold and devote 20% of his time to until 30 June 2010). Sir Ian was Knighted in the New Year’s Honours 2013.He has been the Chair... |
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Professor James Hough FRS FRSE FAPS FinstP C.Phys FRAS |
Chief Executive of the Scottish Universities Physic Alliance (SUPA). Kelvin Professor of Natural Philosophy and Associate Director of the Institute for Gravitational Research University of Glasgow. Prof James Hough is a graduate of the University of Glasgow where he became Professor of Experimental Physics in 1986 and Kelvin Professor of Natural Philosophy in 2009. Professor Hough... |
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Professor Julian D C Jones, OBE, FRSE, FOSA, FInstP |
Deputy Principal for Strategy and Resources, Heriot Watt University Julian Jones gained his BSc and PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth before becoming a Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Since 1988, he has been at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, establishing a research group in optical fibre sensors, optical instrumentation and laser-material interactions... |
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Mrs Angela Mathis |
Chief Executive ThinkTank Maths Ltd Angela Mathis is Chief Executive and co-founder of Edinburgh-based ThinkTank Maths Ltd., a private company providing efficiency and innovation products to key industrial sectors leveraging high-level core skills in mathematics and related sciences. She is an elected Council member of ADS Scotland, the UK trade body for Aerospace, Defence, Security and... |
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Professor George Salmond BSc, MA, PhD, ScD, FRSA, FSB |
Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Cambridge University George Salmond is Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is a Governor of the John Innes Centre and member of the Board of Directors for the James Hutton Institute. . He was International Secretary and Member of Council of the Society for General... |
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Professor Marian Scott OBE, FRSE, FISI, CStats |
Professor Environmental Statistics, University of Glasgow Marian Scott is Professor of Environmental Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Glasgow. Professor Scott’s research interests focus on the use of statistics in environmental science, policy and regulation. She is also a member of the University of Glasgow's Pain and Welfare Group, and has an interest in... |
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Professor David Cumming B.Eng, PhD |
David Cumming (B.Eng. Glasgow, Ph.D. Cambridge) is the Professor of Electronic Systems at Glasgow University where he is the Head of Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering in the School of Engineering. He runs the Microsystem Technology (MST) group with 20 researchers. His research into lab-in-a-pill led to the university spin-out, Mode Diagnostics. He worked for Ion Torrent Inc. that... |
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Mr Stuart Farmer, BSC, MBA, PGCE, CSciTeach |
Stuart Farmer is the headof Physics at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. Following graduation from the University of St Andrews and Dundee College of Education, Stuart has taught in Kinross High School, Peterhead Academy, Alford Academy and Robert Gordon’s College. Throughout his teaching career Stuart has been actively involved in a wide variety of professional activities beyond... |
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Professor Jon Oberlander BA, PhD, |
Jon Oberlander holds a Chair in Epistemics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has a BA in Philosophy from Cambridge, UK (1983), and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh (1987), and has been an EPSRC Advanced Fellow at the ESRC Human Communication Research Centre. He was founder-Director of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science... |
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Professor Jason Reese FREng, FRSE |
Professor of Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics, and Head of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, in the University of Strathclyde Jason Reese FREng FRSE is the Weir Professor of Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics, and Head of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, in the University of Strathclyde. Following a degree in Physics from... |
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Professor Anne Glover, CBE, FRSE, FAAM |
Professor Anne Glover was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland on August 1 2006. She held this post until December 2011. Her role was to further enhance Scotland's reputation as a science nation. Professor Glover holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, and has honorary positions at the Rowett and Macaulay Institutes. She is an... |
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Ian C Ritchie CBE, FREng, FRSE, FBCS |
Non-Executive Chairman of Iomart plc, Scapa, CAS, Casapian Learning and the Interactive Design Institute. Ian Ritchie is the non-executive Chairman of Iomart plc, Scapa, CAS, Caspian Learning and the Interactive Design Institute. He has been involved in over 20 start-up high-tech businesses, including OWL, Digital Bridges, Voxar, Sonaptic and Orbital. Ritchie is a past-President of... |
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Professor Robert Tooze, BSc, ARCS, PhD, DIC, CChem, MRSC |
Managing Director of Sasol Technology UK Ltd Professor Tooze is Managing Director of Sasol Technology UK Ltd. He has worked in the chemical industry for 25 years, much of this for ICI, working in various businesses and locations but always in R&D. He joined Sasol Technology UK (STUK) in 2002 as Research Director and was made Managing Director in 2004. He has wide experience of... |
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Professor Ian Underwood FREng FRSE FInstP |
Professor of Electronic Displays, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh Ian Underwood is Professor of Electronic Displays at The University of Edinburgh where he is currently Head of the Institute for Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS). He was a co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays (MED) and co-inventor of its P-OLED microdisplay technology. Major honors include - Ernst... |
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Professor Lord Winston Hon FREng, F Med Sci, DSc |
Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London. Robert Winston is the first Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London, a university with one of the strongest international science bases, where he will focus on the crucial importance of improving communication and public engagement with science. Concentrating on advancing the understanding and... |