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: Physics and Astronomy
Professor Stuart Parkin
Director, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Professor Stuart Parkin is an experimental physicist who has made pioneering contributions to the science and technological applications of spintronic materials for field sensing, magnetic memory and data storage devices. His research in magneto-resistive thin film structures enabled a dramatic increase in the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives for which he was awarded the Millennium Technology Awards from the Technology Academy Finland in 2014. Since 2014 he has been Director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany.
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