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: 2015
Discipline: Organismal and Environmental Biology
Professor Desmond Thompson
Principal Adviser on Science and Biodiversity, NatureScot
From the Highlands, Principal Adviser on Science and Biodiversity with NatureScot. Works on birds of prey, upland ecosystems, and state of nature. Vice President of the Field Studies Council.
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