Members of the University recognised in 2025 New Year Honours
Published: 9 January 2025
Members of the University community were recognised in the 2025 King’s New Year Honours list.
Professor Douglas Paul was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2025 King’s New Year Honours for services to quantum technology research.
Professor Paul currently holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Emerging Technologies in the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering. He previously held an EPSRC Quantum Technology Fellowship, awarded to provide leadership for the UK Quantum Technology Programme, and an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He was the first Director of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre and is the Principal Investigator of QEPNT, the UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation & Timing.
Speaking about the award, Professor Paul said: “I am honoured to have received an OBE in the New Year Honours list. The recognition of my services to quantum technologies research would not have been possible without all my collaborators and those who have supported my career.”
Among the members of the University community recognised in the New Year Honours were Chris Stark, Honorary Professor in the University’s Centre for Public Policy and former chief executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, who was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Tackling Climate Change
Graduate of the University and current Director General of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, received a Knighthood within the Order of the Bath for public service.
First published: 9 January 2025