UCL academics elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering

Professors Peter Lee and Kai Luo (both UCL Mechanical Engineering) and Professor Mark Harman (UCL Computer Science) have been made Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field. The three academics are among 53 eminent engineers formally admitted to the academy this year. The Fellowship represents the nation's best engineering researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business, and industry leaders. Professor Peter Lee, who holds a  Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies (Additive Manufacturing), is a materials scientists who leads UCL's Materials, Structures and Manufacturing lab group at Harwell, home to Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility. His work in solidification and X-ray imaging has enabled us to see inside materials in 3D as they change in time, revealing how microstructures evolve in alloys, bioactive-glasses and geological systems. This has helped a range of industries - from aerospace to biomedicine to energy - solve important engineering challenges, for instance in developing additive manufactured human joint replacements or lightweight automotive components. Professor Lee said: " Becoming a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering is a real honour, but is more a reflection of the outstanding scientists, engineers and medics I've worked with both within my group, and as colleagues and collaborators both at UCL, within the UK and worldwide." Professor Kai Luo, Chair of Energy Systems at UCL, has made outstanding contributions to engineering research, education and practices over three decades.