Membership of Sectional Committees 2015

The main responsibility of the Sectional Committees is to select a short list of candidates for consideration by Council for election to the Fellowship. The Committees meet twice a year, in January and March.

SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 1 [1963] SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 3 [1963] Mathematics Chemistry Chair: Professor Keith Ball Chair: Professor Anthony Stace Members: Members: Professor Philip Candelas Professor Varinder Aggarwal Professor Ben Green Professor Harry Anderson Professor John Hinch Professor Steven Armes Professor Christopher Hull Professor Paul Attfield Professor Richard Kerswell Professor Shankar Balasubramanian Professor Chandrashekhar Khare Professor Philip Bartlett Professor Steffen Lauritzen Professor Geoffrey Cloke Professor David MacKay Professor Peter Edwards Professor Robert MacKay Professor Malcolm Levitt Professor James McKernan Professor John Maier Professor Michael Paterson Professor Stephen Mann Professor Mary Rees Professor David Manolopoulos Professor John Toland Professor Paul O’Brien Professor Srinivasa Varadhan Professor David Parker Professor Alex Wilkie Professor Stephen Withers

SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 2 [1963] SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 4 [1990] Astronomy and physics Engineering Chair: Professor Simon White Chair: Professor Hywel Thomas Members: Members: Professor Girish Agarwal Professor Ross Anderson Professor Michael Coey Professor Alan Bundy Professor Jack Connor Professor Michael Burdekin Professor Laurence Eaves Professor Russell Cowburn Professor Nigel Glover Professor John Crowcroft Professor Duncan Haldane Dame Ann Dowling Professor Simon Lilly Professor Ian Horrocks Professor Malcolm Longair Professor Anthony Kinloch Professor Tom McLeish Professor Gerhard Materlik Professor Mervyn Miles Professor Jenny Nelson Sir John Pendry Professor Kerry Rowe Professor Tejinder Virdee Professor George Smith Professor Ian Walmsley Dr Alan Turnbull Professor Terry Wyatt Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Professor Julia Yeomans Professor Robert Young

SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 5 [1963] SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 8 [1996] Earth and environmental sciences Anatomy, physiology and neurosciences Chair: Professor James Jackson Chair: Professor Russell Foster Members: Members: Professor Richard Battarbee Professor David Attwell Professor Michael Benton Professor Michael Bate Professor Joe Cann Professor David Brown Professor Harry Elderfield Professor Nicola Clayton Professor Christopher Hawkesworth Professor Graham Collingridge Professor Gideon Henderson Professor Alun Davies Sir Brian Hoskins Professor Nick Franks Professor Trevor McDougall Professor Chris Frith Professor Hugh O’Neill Professor Nick Hastie Professor Tim Palmer Professor Christine Holt Professor John Raven Professor Richard Morris Professor David Stevenson Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini

SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 6 [1996] SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 9 [1995] Biochemistry and molecular cell biology Organismal biology, evolution and ecology Chair: Professor Angus Lamond Chair: Professor Steve Long Members: Members: Professor Robin Allshire Professor Andrew Balmford Professor Judith Armitage Professor Deborah Charlesworth Professor Stephen Halford Professor Michael Crawley Dr Sean Munro Professor Liam Dolan Professor James Naismith Professor Christopher Dye Professor Sheena Radford Professor Graham Farquhar Professor Margaret Robinson Professor Rosemary Grant Professor David Ron Professor Jonathan Jones Professor David Stuart Professor Russell Lande Professor Andrew Thomson Professor Andrew Millar Sir John Walker Professor Paul Sharp Professor Nicholas Talbot SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 7 [1996] Professor Simon Tavaré Microbiology, immunology and Professor Chris Thomas developmental biology Chair: Professor Jeffery Errington SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 10 [1997] Members: Health and human sciences Dr Mariann Bienz Chair: Sir Stephen O’Rahilly Professor Adrian Bird Members: Professor Doreen Cantrell Professor Garret FitzGerald Professor Keith Chater Professor Rod Flower Professor Gordon Dougan Professor Andrew Hattersley Professor Edith Heard Professor Anne Mills Professor Jonathan Hodgkin Sir Richard Peto Professor Eddy Liew Professor Fiona Powrie Dr Alan Smith Professor Humphrey Rang Professor Fiona Watt Professor Peter Ratcliffe

Professor Wolf Reik Professor Graham Russell Professor Elizabeth Simpson Professor Karen Steel Professor Semir Zeki