Professor Macdonald is distinguished through his role in shaping the future of the space sector, both nationally and internationally. He is the Director of Strathclyde’s Centre for Signal and Image Processing (CeSIP), and of CeSIP’s Applied Space Technology Laboratory. He is also a Director of Weather Stream, a US-based weather analytics company deploying a constellation of satellites, was a Non-Executive Board Member of the UK Space Agency from 2017 – 2020, and is as Visiting Professor of University College Dublin.