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.

Fellow: McKenna
Elected: 2021
Discipline: Physics and Astronomy
Professor Paul McKenna
Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics, University of Strathclyde
Professor Paul McKenna is a laser-plasma physicist at the University of Strathclyde. His research focuses on ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions and the development and application of laser-driven radiation sources. Paul has been a member of several EPSRC and STFC senior strategic advisory boards and the scientific advisory committees for international high power laser facilities. Following a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast he undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Glasgow before moving to Strathclyde upon award of a RSE personal research fellowship in 2002. He was an EPSRC Leadership Fellow from 2012-17 and became Head of the Department of Physics at Strathclyde in 2018.
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