Members

SSAC Co-Chair
Dr Chris Masters CBE Senior Independent Director of John Wood Group PLC
Dr Chris Masters CBE Senior Independent Director of John Wood Group PLC

Dr Chris Masters CBE is currently the Senior Independent Director of John Wood Group PLC and of Alliance Trust PLC and Chairman of the Festival City Theatres Trust in Edinburgh. He also holds a number of other non-executive...

Current Member
Mrs Angela Mathis
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-...

Professor George Salmond BSc, MA, PhD, ScD, FRSA, FSB
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...

Professor Marian Scott OBE, FRSE, FISI, CStats
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...

Professor Robert Tooze, BSc, ARCS, PhD, DIC, CChem, MRSC
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...

Professor Ian Underwood FREng FRSE FInstP
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...

Dr Russell G Greig
Dr Russell G Greig

Dr Russell G Greig, President and Founder of Greig Biotechnology Global Consulting, Inc.

Dr. Greig served nearly three decades with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, most recently as President of SR One, GSK’s...

Professor Lord Winston Hon FREng, F Med Sci, DSc
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,...

Ian C Ritchie CBE, FREng, FRSE, FBCS
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...

Professor Ian Boyd, FRSE
Professor Ian Boyd, FRSE

Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute and the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit.

Ian Boyd is a Professor in Biology at the University of St Andrews. He is Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute and the NERC Sea Mammal...

Dr John Brown, MBA, FRSE
Dr John Brown, MBA, FRSE

John has extensive experience in the life sciences sector. He is Chairman of BTG plc and CXR Biosciences Ltd, a non-executive Director of Vectura Group plc and Axis-Shield plc, and was a Director of Cambridge Antibody Technology...

Professor Nigel Brown, FRSE, CBiol, FSB, CChem, FRSC
Professor Nigel Brown, FRSE, CBiol, FSB, CChem, FRSC

Senior Vice-Principal, The University of Edinburgh.

Nigel Brown is Senior Vice-Principal Planning, Resources and Research Policy at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Head...

Professor Alan Bundy, FRSE, FAAAI, FAISB, FECCAI
Professor Alan Bundy, FRSE, FAAAI, FAISB, FECCAI

Professor of Automated Reasoning, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Alan Bundy is Professor of Automated Reasoning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is a fellow of several...

Professor Ian Diamond FBA FRSE AcSS
Professor Ian Diamond FBA FRSE AcSS

Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen

Professor 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...

Professor James Hough FRS FRSE FAPS FinstP C.Phys FRAS
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...

Professor Julian D C Jones, OBE, FRSE, FOSA, FInstP
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...

Past Member
Professor Margaret Gill BSc, PhD, BA, FRSE

Director of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen and Honorary Professor in the Department of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Aberdeen.

Professor Gill has significant experience...

Mrs Sarah Fletcher BSc, MSc, DipEd, PGCE, PGCG

Principal Teacher of Physics, High School of Dundee

Mrs Fletcher has considerable experience in the fields of science and education. Her career has involved scientific medical research, lecturing physics to university...

Professor Tariq Durrani OBE BEng, MSc, PhD, FRSE, FREng, FIEEE, FIEE

Deputy Principal and Professor of Signal Processing, University of Strathclyde.

Professor Durrani has led one of Europe's largest research groups on signal and image processing. As Deputy Principal he currently has...

Dr Donald Bruce BSc, PhD, Dip Theol

Director of the Society, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland since 1992

The SRT Project is a unique unit established in 1970 to explore the ethical implications of current and future technology, from North...

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