Elected: 2001
Discipline: Engineering
Professor Colin McInnes
James Watt Chair, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Glasgow
Colin is James Watt Chair, Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Glasgow where he holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. His research interests include emerging space technologies, orbital dynamics, swarming systems, space resources and climate engineering. This work is delivered through his contributions to the Space and Exploration Technology Group and the Integrated Space and Exploration Technology Laboratory, part of the Space Glasgow research network. Colin is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was made MBE in June 2014 for services to Space Research, Science and Technology.