Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2014
Discipline: Organismal and Environmental Biology
Professor David Salt
Professor and Director Future Food Beacon, University of Nottingham
Professor David Salt is an internationally renowned plant biologist whose research interests include understanding the function of genes and gene networks that regulate the mineral nutrient and trace element composition of plants and how variation in these gene systems allows plants to adapt to their local soil environment. Originally from the UK, David spent over 20 years in the USA before returning to the UK in 2011 to take up post at the University of Aberdeen.
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