Membership of Sectional Committees 2014 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 Peter McCullagh Chair: Professor Anthony Stace Members: Members: Professor Keith Ball Professor Varinder Aggarwal Professor Philip Candelas Professor Shankar Balasubramanian Professor Michael Duff Professor Philip Bartlett Professor Georg Gottlob Professor Peter Bruce Professor Ben Green Professor Eleanor Campbell Professor Richard Kerswell Professor Geoffrey Cloke Professor Robert MacKay Professor Peter Edwards Professor James McKernan Professor Craig Hawker Professor Michael Paterson Professor Philip Kocienski Professor Mary Rees Professor Malcolm Levitt Professor Andrew Soward Professor David Manolopoulos Professor John Toland Professor Paul O’Brien Professor Srinivasa Varadhan Professor David Parker Professor Alex Wilkie Professor Ezio Rizzardo Professor Trevor Wooley Professor Stephen Withers SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 2 [1963] SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 4 [1990] Astronomy and physics Engineering Chair: Professor Simon White Chair: Professor Keith Bowen Members: Members: Professor Gabriel Aeppli Professor Ross Anderson Professor Girish Agarwal Professor Alan Bundy Professor Michael Coey Professor John Burland Professor Jack Connor Professor Russell Cowburn Professor Stan Cowley Dame Ann Dowling Professor Laurence Eaves Professor Norman Fleck Dr Jonathan Ellis Professor Ian Horrocks Professor Brian Foster Professor Anthony Kinloch Professor Duncan Haldane Professor Gerhard Materlik Professor Nick Kaiser Professor John McCanny Professor Malcolm Longair Professor George Smith Sir John Pendry Professor Hywel Thomas Professor Tejinder Virdee Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Professor Ian Walmsley Professor Robert Young Professor Julia Yeomans SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 5 [1963] SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 8 [1996] Earth and environmental sciences Anatomy, physiology and neurosciences Chair: Professor Keith Shine Chair: Professor Thomas Jessell Members: Members: Professor Richard Battarbee Professor Michael Bate Professor Jeremy Bloxham Professor Nicola Clayton Professor Joe Cann Professor Graham Collingridge Lord Hunt of Chesterton Professor Alun Davies Professor Harry Elderfield Professor Russell Foster Professor Gideon Henderson Professor Nick Franks Professor James Jackson Professor Chris Frith Professor Paul Linden Professor Roger Hardie Professor Trevor McDougall Professor Nick Hastie Professor John Raven Professor Christine Holt Sir Robert Watson Professor David Milner Professor Bernard Wood Professor Richard Morris Professor Guy Richardson SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 6 [1996] Biochemistry and molecular cell biology SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 9 [1995] Chair: Professor Gideon Davies Organismal biology, evolution and ecology Members: Chair: Professor Nicholas Harberd Professor Robin Allshire Members: Professor Judith Armitage Professor Andrew Balmford Professor Stephen Busby Professor Spencer Barrett Professor Stephen Halford Professor Deborah Charlesworth Dr Brian Hemmings Professor Christopher Dye Dr Richard Henderson Professor Rosemary Grant Professor Neil Hunter Professor Peter Hudson Professor Angus Lamond Professor Jonathan Jones Professor Howard Morris Professor Russell Lande Dr Sean Munro Professor Steve Long Professor David Stuart Professor Andrew Millar Professor Mark Pagel SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 7 [1996] Professor Geoffrey Parker Microbiology, immunology and Professor Simon Tavaré developmental biology Professor Chris Thomas Chair: Professor Jeffery Errington Members: SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 10 [1997] Professor Adrian Bird Health and human sciences Professor Doreen Cantrell Chair: Professor Raymond Dolan Professor Keith Chater Members: Professor Peter Cresswell Professor Peter Barnes Professor Gordon Dougan Professor Garret FitzGerald Professor Edith Heard Professor Andrew Hattersley Professor Jonathan Hodgkin Professor Anne Mills Professor Eddy Liew Sir Stephen O’Rahilly Professor Michael Malim Sir Richard Peto Dr Alan Smith Professor Fiona Powrie Professor Humphrey Rang Professor Peter Ratcliffe Professor Wolf Reik Professor Graham Russell Professor Elizabeth Simpson Professor Karen Steel .