Archie Roy

          Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. Member and former President of the Society for Psychical Research and the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, Founding-President of the latter. Member of the International Astronomical Union, honouring him by naming an asteroid after him. Elected a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and the Humanities.

He is a Patron of the Churches Fellowship (Scotland) for Psychical and Spiritual Studies and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. He has published 20 books, six of them novels, some 70 scientific papers and scores of articles. Directed Advanced Scientific Institutes for NATO.