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: 2016
Discipline: Organismal and Environmental Biology
Professor Peter Tyack
Professor of Marine Mammal Biology, University of St Andrews
Professor Peter Tyack is a behavioural ecologist whose research focuses on how whales and dolphins use sound to communicate and echolocate for foraging, and the vulnerability of marine mammals to anthropogenic noise. He has considerable experience working with the US National Academy of Sciences, industry, Congress and Government agencies in the USA to bring scientific evidence to impact public policy. In 2011, he joined the faculty of the University of St Andrews.
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