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: 2005
Discipline: Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor James Naismith
Professor of Structural Biology and Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, University of Oxford
I grew up in Hamilton and studied Chemistry at Edinburgh 85 -89, then for my PhD I studied structural biochemistry at Manchester, graduating in 1992. After two years in Dallas Texas, I started a lectureship at St Andrews, January 1995. I stayed at St Andrews until 2017, when I moved to Oxford to head up first the Research Complex at Harwell and subsequently the Rosalind Franklin Institute.
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