Dr. Colin Mcinnes

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Biography

Colin McInnes is the James Watt Chair and Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Glasgow, where he holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. His long-term research program spans a range of emerging space technologies, spacecraft orbital dynamics, and space resources. He aims to devise, develop, and demonstrate new ideas and technologies that underpin future space applications. He contributes to the Space Exploration Technology Group and the Integrated Space Exploration Technology Laboratory, which are part of the Space Glasgow Research Network. McInnes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Engineering, having been made an MBE in June 2014 for his services to Space Research, Science, and Technology. He is a holder of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2015 to 2020 and was a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council from 2016 to 2020. Furthermore, he chaired the UK Space Agency’s Space Technology Advisory Committee from 2019 to 2021 and is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Satellite Applications Catapult. His current research activities involve Emerging Space Technologies, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the European Research Council.

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James Watt Chair, Professor Engineering Science

— Present

University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK

Leading research in emerging space technologies and engineering science.