2022 he became Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Higham is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professional service Higham served as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2017–2018, as vice president at Large 2010–2013, and on the SIAM Board of Trustees 2006–2009, and Council 1996–2001. He was a member of the Applied Mathematics sub-panel for the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise and the Mathematical Sciences sub-panel of the 2014 UK Research Exercise Excellence Framework. References External links 1961 births Living people Academics of the University of Manchester Alumni of the University of Manchester 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the Royal Society Numerical analysts People from Salford Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders Whitehead Prize winners