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: 2018
Discipline: Physics and Astronomy
Professor Giles Hammond
Professor of Experimental Gravitational Physics, University of Glasgow
Professor Giles Hammond is an innovative physicist who played a pivotal role in the recent detection of gravitational waves from binary black hole and neutron star mergers. He led the work on the fused silica mirror suspensions that were a critical factor in enabling the detection. This breakthrough led to Giles being co-awarded the RSE President’s Medal in 2016 and the 2017 Bruno Rossi Prize. He also leads an activity to develop MEMS gravity sensors which have applications in oil & gas monitoring, defence and security and environmental monitoring. Giles was a founding member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland and served on the facilitating group from 2013 to 2016. He is an enthusiastic ambassador for physics through his outreach work.
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