Prof Sergei Turitsyn elected as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Professor Sergei Turitsyn, co-investigator on the EPSRC TRANSNET Programme, has been elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The Academy's Fellowship brings together the best researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business and industry leaders in the field, and is one of the highest honours that an engineer can receive.
Professor Sergei Turitsyn FREng who established, and has since led, the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, is recognised for his world-leading applications of nonlinear science for innovative photonic technologies. He pioneered a new type of laser featuring simple design and high performance (random distributed feedback fibre lasers); the application of Nyquist pulses in fibre-optic communications, and the nonlinear Fourier transform techniology, potentially unlocking capacity of the communications systems in the nonlinear regime.
Of his election, Professor Turitsyn said," I am greatly honoured to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and would like to thank my colleagues and collaborators I have had the privilege of working with. It is an amazing feeling to be part of the community that creates new technologies using advances in the fundamental science."
Professor Turitsyn aims to use this Fellowship to collaborate with the Academy and other Fellows to educate the upcoming generation of engineers and first-hand demonstrate the benefits of excellence in engineering to the UK and the rest of the world.
The new Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at a special ceremony in London on 8 November 2022, which will also involve the Fellows signing the roll book. Professor Turitsyn now joins a community of almost 1,700 prominent engineers united by the Academy's mission in harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “I am delighted to welcome such an array of enormously talented people to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. From industry and enterprise to education and government – both national and international – these are some of our most pioneering and distinguished engineers and technologists.
“In an uncertain world, one thing is certain – engineering skills, vision and leadership will play a crucial part in addressing the escalating domestic and global challenges that we face today. The combined connectivity, professionalism, experience and wisdom of the new Fellows who join us today will greatly enrich the expertise and support we can provide to the government and to society in general.”
We offer our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Turitsyn on behalf of the entire TRANSNET team.
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