14 Members of Academia Europaea elected to the Royal Society

14 Members of Academia Europaea elected to the Royal Society


The Royal Society has announced that 80 outstanding scientists and scholars from around the world have been elected as Fellows, Foreign Members and Honorary Members. Among them, 14 Members of Academia Europaea have been elected.

The 80 individuals have been selected for their substantial contribution to the advancement of science. Of the 14 MAEs, 5 are elected as new Fellows and 9 as Foreign Members.


The new Fellows who are also MAEs are:

  • Huajian Gao, Distinguished University Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • James Maynard, Professor of Number Theory, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
  • Jane Memmott, Professor of Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
  • Jane Parker, Senior Research Group Leader, Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
  • Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford and Professor Anaesthetic Neuroscience, Nuffield Department Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford


The new Foreign Members who are also MAEs are:

  • Eva-Mari Aro, Research Director of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Finland
  • Stanislas Dehanene, Director, NeuroSpin Brain Imaging Center, CEA Saclay; Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France; and Director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France
  • Odile Eisenstein, Emeritus CNRS-Université Montpellier, France and University Oslo, Norway
  • Gerald Haug, Director, Department of Climate Geochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; and President, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
  • Kristian Helin, Chief Executive, President and Professor, The Institute of Cancer Research
  • Yonggang Huang, Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, United States
  • Edvard Moser, Professor of Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • May-Britt Moser, Professor of Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Moshe Vardi, University Professor and George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, United States


Read the full list of 2023 winners.





12th May 2023. For further information please contact AECardiffHub@cardiff.ac.uk




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