Congratulations to Professor Christopher Lynch who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The Honorary Fellowship is the highest qualification that a Royal College can award.

16 Feb 2026

The citation for Professor Lynch’s award recognised his outstanding international contribution to dental education, scholarship, and professional leadership - in particular highlighting Professor Lynch’s international reputation as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Dentistry since 2011 and his achievement of Membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2023 (the latter regarded as the highest academic honour in Ireland). In its 240 year history, Professor Lynch is the 3rd dentist to have been admitted to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy, and the first since 1940.

Professor Lynch has published widely in the international literature with more than 200 publications in international peer-review journals. Professor Lynch is shortly due to conclude his term as Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, having served as Dean since March 2023. Professor Lynch has been recognised with distinctions such as the Award of Excellence in Dental Education from the Association for Dental Education in Europe (2014), Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy UK (2019 – at the time of award, Chris was the 5th Principal Fellow based in Ireland) and achievement of one of the inaugural Teaching & Learning Research Fellowships from the National Forum for Teaching & Learning (2020) – of the 5 awardees, Chris was the only clinician to be recognised. In 2023, Chris received the international Ivar Mjör Prize for Practice-Based Research from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), while in 2024, Chris received an Honorary Fellowship from the College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong.