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: 1987
Discipline: Organismal and Environmental Biology
Professor Ian Johnston
Chief Executive Officer, Xelect Ltd
University of St Andrews: Lecturer in Physiology 1976-1983; Reader in Physiology 1984 -1985; Professor of Comparative Physiology 1985 -1997; Chandos Professor 1997-2006: Professor of Biology 2016 – 2019; Director, Gatty Marine Laboratory 1985-2008; Director, Scottish Oceans Institute 2012 – 2016; Professor Emeritus 2019 – present.
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Xelect Ltd – the aquaculture genetics company 2012 – present.
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