Colin McInnes

Colin McInnes is James Watt Chair, Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Glasgow, where he holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. His long-term programme of research spans a range of emerging space technologies, spacecraft orbital dynamics and space resources. He aims to devise, develop and demonstrate new ideas and technologies which can underpin the space applications of the future. He is a former member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council and a former Chair of the UK Space Agency Space Technology Advisory Committee.  Colin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and was made MBE in 2014 for services to Space Research, Science and Technology.