Particle physicist announced as new Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Congratulations to Professor Richard Ball who has been elected as RSE Fellow.

Professor Richard Ball

Congratulations to Professor Richard Ball who is among the distinguished individuals elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).

Professor Ball works in the area of particle physics theory, the study of elementary particles and their interactions as revealed by experiments at particle colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He has a broad range of interests, from chirality and the Higgs boson, to high energy quantum chromodynamics, and the extraction of precision physics from hadronic collisions using neural networks and machine learning.

Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy, is an educational charity established in 1783.

New Fellows are elected to the RSE each year through a nomination process and the Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts. The RSE uses its combined knowledge of Fellows to tackle the most pressing issues facing society, provide independent expert advice to policymakers and inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers.