Gratitude to the University of Edinburgh faculty.

As the 34th Principal and Vice-Chancellor since 2018, and a nephrologist by training, he has steered one of the world's great universities through demanding years with a physician's steadiness.

As Provost and chief academic officer, she carries the University's teaching and research mission forward while remaining a genuine scientist of human memory and the brain.

He leads Edinburgh's medicine and veterinary college while pursuing comparative cancer research that lets discoveries in dogs help both animals and people.

Through the Anne Rowling Clinic and the MND-SMART trial he has given real hope to people with motor neurone disease, pairing stem-cell science with faster, kinder clinical trials.

Her work on how the human genome folds itself inside the cell nucleus reshaped how we understand gene control, and she has championed women in science every step of the way.

A leading voice in teaching machines to understand and summarise human language, her research helped put Edinburgh at the front of natural language processing worldwide.

Leading the Machine Intelligence Group, he works on getting machines to learn how to learn, so AI can be more data-efficient, robust, and trustworthy.

She leads one of the world's top informatics schools while pioneering how people and autonomous robots can trust and talk to each other in natural language.

Holding a Royal Academy of Engineering research chair, he builds robots that learn to move and cooperate with people, from prosthetics to planetary exploration.

The first woman to be Astronomer Royal for Scotland, she maps the dark side of the cosmos and shares its wonder generously with the public.

For decades he simulated the forces binding quarks inside matter and built up Edinburgh's world-class supercomputing, a legacy that still powers the University's science.

A Fellow of the Royal Society, he decodes exactly how catalytic reactions work step by step, giving chemists the understanding to make medicines more cleanly.

He leads Edinburgh's science and engineering college while remaining a working mathematician in the deep world of algebra and representation theory.

A pioneer of animal gene editing at the home of Dolly the sheep, he works to make farmed animals more resistant to disease and to advance human medicine.

He designs soft, bioinspired robots and sensors that borrow nature's cleverness, bridging engineering, biology, and medicine.

He designs the flexible, intelligent grids that let renewable power reach homes reliably, an essential piece of the path to clean energy.

Her hazard maps and risk science help communities living in the shadow of volcanoes stay safer, turning fieldwork into forecasts that protect lives.

An economist of education, he now devotes himself to the student experience at Edinburgh, working to make university life fairer and more rewarding for everyone who studies there.

She leads Edinburgh's largest college while remaining a scholar who has recovered the voices of early women writers across Britain.

Her research on older workers and fair employment has shaped how organisations think about age, and she led the Business School with warmth and rigour.

Co-founder of the SCRIPT centre for IT and IP law, he thinks carefully about how law should meet computers, forensics, and AI so technology serves justice.

A leading philosopher of technology, she asks how AI reshapes human character and virtue, and helps policymakers and industry build tools that keep people at the centre.

Holder of the oldest chair in Scottish history, he tells the story of modern Scotland, its land, and its politics with depth and care.

As Principal of New College she leads one of the UK's foremost centres of theology, reading scripture alongside literature in ways that open it to new readers.