Fifty eminent scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society and ten as new Foreign Members for their exceptional contributions to science.

Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, says:

“Our Fellows are key to the Royal Society’s fundamental purpose of using science for the benefit of humanity. From Norwich to Melbourne to Ethiopia, this year’s newly elected Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society are testament that science is a global endeavour and excellent ideas transcend borders. We also recognise the cutting edge innovation taking place across industry, with many of this year’s Fellows coming from the thriving tech industry. For their outstanding contributions to research and innovation, both now and in the future, it gives me great pleasure to welcome the world’s best scientists into the ranks of the Royal Society.”

Some statistics about this year’s intake are as follows:

14 of this year’s intake of Fellows (12) and Foreign Members (2) are women

New Fellows have been elected from across the UK and Commonwealth, including Auckland, Melbourne, Newcastle, Surrey and Toronto, along with those from international institutions in Israel, Ethiopia, Italy and Switzerland

The full list of the newly-elected Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society are, in alphabetical order:

Fellows of the Royal Society

Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS, Professor of Physics and Professor of Public Engagement in Science, Department of Physics, University of Surrey

Polly Arnold OBE FRS, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

Jillian Banfield FRS, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of Melbourne

Margaret Brimble CNZM FRS, Distinguished Professor, Chair of Organic Chemistry and Director of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland

Neil Brockdorff FRS, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Frank Caruso FRS, Melbourne Laureate Professor and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne

Vincenzo Cerundolo FMedSci FRS, Director, MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

Kevin Costello FRS, Krembil Foundation William Rowan Hamilton Chair in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Robert Crabtree FRS, Whitehead Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University

Alexander Dawid FRS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge

Peter Dayan FRS, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London

Richard Dixon FRS, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas

Gregory Edgecombe FRS, Merit Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum

Wenfei Fan FRS, Professor of Web Data Management, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Roger Goody FRS, Emeritus Director, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology

Robin Grimes FRS, Professor of Materials Physics, Department of Materials, Imperial College London and Chief Scientific Adviser, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Gregory Hannon FRS, Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology and Director, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge

Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS, Founder and CEO, DeepMind

Judy Hirst FRS, Deputy Director, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge

Graeme Jameson AO FREng FRS, Laureate Professor and Director of the Centre for Multiphase Processes, University of Newcastle (Australia)

Harren Jhoti FRS, President and CEO, Astex Pharmaceuticals

Sophien Kamoun FRS, Senior Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory

Andrew King FMedSci FRS, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford

Dimitri Kullmann FMedSci FRS, Professor of Neurology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London

Dominic Kwiatkowski FMedSci FRS, Head of Parasites and Microbes Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Professor of Genomics and Global Health, University of Oxford

Richard Marais FRS, Director, The CRUK Manchester Institute, University of Manchester

Catherine Martin MBE FRS, Project Leader, Department of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre

Elon Musk FRS, Engineer, inventor and entrepreneur

Peter O'Hearn FRS, Research Scientist, Facebook, and Professor of Computer Science, University College London

Vassilis Pachnis FMedSci FRS, Senior Group Leader, Development and Homeostasis of the Nervous System Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute

Tracy Palmer FRS, Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Division of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

Colin Prentice FRS, AXA Professor of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Imperial College London

Lalita Ramakrishnan FRS, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Head of Molecular Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge

Nancy Reid OC FRS, University Professor of Statistical Sciences and Canada Research Chair, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, and Director, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute

Graham Richards CBE FRS, Chairman and Founder, Oxford Drug Design Ltd and Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

David Richardson FREng FRS, Deputy Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton

Sheila Rowan FRS, Director, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow

Ingrid Scheffer AO FRS, Chair of Paediatric Neurology, The University of Melbourne, Honorary Senior Principal Research Fellow, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and Director of Paediatrics, Austin Health

Michelle Simmons FRS, Professor of Physics and Director, Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, University of New South Wales

John Smol FRS, Professor, Department of Biology and School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University (Canada)

Timothy Softley FRS, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer), University of Birmingham

John Speakman FMedSci FRS, Chair in Zoology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Aberdeen and '1000 talents' Professor, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Graeme Stephens FRS, Director, Center for Climate Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Angela Strank DBE FREng FRS, BP Chief Scientist and Head of Technology, Downstream , BP plc

Charles Swanton FMedSci FRS, Director, CRUK UCL/Manchester Lung Cancer Centre, UCL Cancer Institute and Senior Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute

Peter Visscher FRS, Professor and Chair of Quantitative Genetics and Director, Program in Complex Trait Genomics, University of Queensland

Guy Wilkinson FRS, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Geordie Williamson FRS, Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

Daniel Wise FRS, James McGill Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University

Nikolay Zheludev FRS, Deputy Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton and Co-Director, The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Foreign Members

Carolyn Bertozzi ForMemRS, Anne T and Robert M Bass Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University

Martin Chalfie ForMemRS, University Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

Sebsebe Demissew ForMemRS, Professor of Plant Systematics and Biodiversity, College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University and Executive Director, Gullele Botanic Garden, Ethiopia

Jeffrey Friedman ForMemRS, Marilyn M Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Fabiola Gianotti ForMemRS, Physicist, Director-General, CERN

Albrecht Hofmann ForMemRS, Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Senior Visiting Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Butler Lampson ForMemRS, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Corporation

Tullio Pozzan ForMemRS, Director, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Italian National Research Council and Professor of General Pathology, University of Padova

Joachim Sauer ForMemRS, Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Adi Shamir ForMemRS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science

Honorary Fellow