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Sir Adrian Smith PRS
Elected 2001
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Sir Adrian Smith PRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2001
- President, The Royal SocietyInstitute Director and Chief Executive, Alan Turing Institute
President
Sir Adrian Smith is President of the Royal Society. He started his five year term on 30 November 2020.
Adrian is a mathematician with particular expertise in the field of Bayesian statistics and was knighted in 2011.
Read more about AdrianAbout the Fellowship
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Fellows and Foreign Members are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.
There are approximately 1,700 Fellows and Foreign Members, including around 85 Nobel Laureates. Each year up to 52 Fellows and up to 10 Foreign Members are elected from a group of around 800 candidates who are proposed by the existing Fellowship.
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Sir Robin Grimes FREng FRS
Elected 2018
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Sir Robin Grimes FREng FRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2018
- Steele Professor of Energy Materials, Department of Materials, Imperial College LondonForeign Secretary, The Royal Society
Professor Robin Grimes is new Foreign Secretary
Professor Robin Grimes has taken over the role of Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. Professor Grimes is a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Steele Chair of Energy Materials at Imperial College London.
He heads up the Society’s international work at a time when supporting scientific collaboration and maintaining the closest possible links with European researchers is of paramount importance to the Royal Society, and to UK science as a whole.
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Sir Adrian Smith PRS
Elected 2001
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Sir Adrian Smith PRS
- Fellow
- Elected:2001
- President, The Royal SocietyInstitute Director and Chief Executive, Alan Turing Institute
President
Sir Adrian Smith is President of the Royal Society. He started his five year term on 30 November 2020.
Adrian is a mathematician with particular expertise in the field of Bayesian statistics and was knighted in 2011.
Read moreGovernance
The Royal Society is governed by a Council of Fellows, who are elected by the Fellowship. Find out more about the Officers, Council and Committees who oversee the work of the Society.
About the Fellowship
Discover the lives and scientific achievements of former Fellows in our Biographical Memoirs publication. Or find out more about the process of nomination, selection and admission.