Professor Robert Mark Ellam is a well-known isotopic geochemist, academician (Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh), and was the Director of SUERC, a leading UK centre for isotope science affiliated to the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.  Professor Ellam has made many outstanding contributions to geochemistry, earth dynamics, especially the structure and evolution of the North Atlantic region, and environmental radioactivity.  He was previously Copernicus Visiting Scientist at the University of Ferrara, an Honorary Professor at TJU and is one of the top two percent of cited scientists globally.