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: 2020
Discipline: Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor Dr Pieter van West
Director of the International Centre for Aquaculture Research and Development, University of Aberdeen
Professor Dr Ir Pieter van West is also the Microbiology Programme Lead in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen and was a past Royal Society University Research Fellow. His current research programme focuses on oomycete biology. Several economically and environmentally important oomycetes, or watermoulds, are studied at most disciplinary levels (taxonomy, ecology, epidemiology, biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology and especially host-microbe interactions).
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