The Royal Society
Davide Michieletto is a Reader and Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh since April 2020. Additionally, Davide holds a Research Fellowship at The Royal Society and serves as Principal Investigator for the European Research Council (ERC), both positions since January 2021. Previously, Davide was awarded a Research Fellowship from The Leverhulme Trust from May to December 2020 and worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bath from August 2019 to May 2020. Prior experience includes a role as Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Edinburgh from September 2015 to September 2018 and as a PhD Student at the University of Warwick from September 2012 to September 2015.
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. The Society is independent of government, as it has been throughout its existence, by virtue of its Royal Charters. In 1663, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge was granted its Arms and adopted the motto "Nullius in verba", an expression of its enduring commitment to empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world. The Society's activities include influencing science and education policy, funding leading researchers, publishing journals that span all the sciences and the history of science, and the provision of science communication activities for a variety of public audiences.