2025 awards
December 2025
Department of Biology
- Professor Rob Salguero-Gómez awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Department of Chemistry
- Associate Professor Fernanda Duarte awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Department of Computer Science
- Dr Ján Pich awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor Erin E Saupe awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
- Professor Gideon Mark Henderson appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Science.in the New Year Honours 2026.
- Professor Tamsin Mather appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Volcanology and to the Promotion of Science in the New Year Honours 2026.
Department of Materials
- Professor Robert Weatherup awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Mathematical Institute
- Professor James Maynard awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Department of Physics
- Professor Stephen Smartt recognised with the inaugural Into Change Award by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
Department of Statistics
- Professor Pier Palamara awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
November 2025
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Philip Torr and Dr Christian Schroeder de Witt awarded Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Research Fellowships.
Department of Computer Science
- Associate Professor Vincent Cheval awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants.
October 2025
Department of Chemistry
- Associate Professor Meera Mehta awarded a 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Department of Engineering Science
- Associate Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda awarded a 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
- Professor Noa Zilberman awarded a 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
September 2025
Department of Biology
- Dr Tina Schreier awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
Department of Chemistry
- Dr Dan Congrave awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
Department of Computer Science
- Dr Jiarui Gan awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
- Associate Professor Amir Kafshdar Goharshady awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
- Associate Professor Ana Namburete awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
- Professor Christian Rupprecht awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
- Professor Michael Wooldridge elected as a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow.
Department of Engineering Science
- Emeritus Professor Ronald Roy elected as a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow.
- Professor Andrea Vedaldi elected as a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow.
Department of Physics
- Dr Natalia Chepiga awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
August 2025
Department of Biology
- Professor Kayla King, Department of Biology: awarded the Royal Society Francis Crick Medal and Lecture for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics of infectious disease.
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Philipp Kukura, Department of Chemistry: awarded the Royal Society Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture for pioneering and democratising mass photometry.
- Professor Andrew Goodwin awarded a Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship.
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Michael Wooldridge, Department of Computer Science: awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture for award-winning work as a leading researcher, educator and commentator in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Andrea Vedaldi awarded a Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship.
July 2025
Department of Engineering Science
- OrganOx, co-founded by Professor Constantin Coussios, (Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering), awarded the MacRobert Award 2025 by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
- Professor Jin-Chong Tan awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant.
June 2025
Department of Biology
- Dr Keith Kirby appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Ecology, Forestry and Woodland Management.
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Yimon Aye and Professor Madhavi Krishnan awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council.
- Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations team, led by Professor Kylie Vincent awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award.
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Rahul Santhanam awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.
Department of Materials
- Professor Mauro Pasta awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry.
- Professor Saiful Islam awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open Prize: Environment Prize.
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Ursula Martin appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to Science and Education.
Department of Physics
- Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been appointed a Companion of Honour (CH) for services to Astronomy and Physics and to Diversity.
May 2025
Department of Biology
- Professor Philip Poole elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Véronique Gouverneur, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry elected a an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences
- Professor Philipp Kukura elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor David Pyle elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Dame Molly Stevens elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Department of Physics
- Professor Ian Walmsley named a member of the National Quantum Strategic Advisory Board (SAB)*, advising the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
- Professor Shivaji Sondhi elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
- Professor Daniela Bortoletto awarded the European Physical Society’s Emmy Noether Distinction 2024
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Mike Giles elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
April 2025
Department of Biology
- Professor David Macdonald awarded a Linnean Medal 2025
March 2025
Department of Statistics
- Professor Charlotte Deane selected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in the Class of 2025
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Patrick Farrell awarded the Germund Dahlquist prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
February 2025
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt appointed to the UK Government’s Council for Science and Technology
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor Hugh Jenkyns awarded the Geological Society of London's 2025 Lyell Medal for his pioneering research in 'soft'-rock studies
Department of Materials
- Professor Sir Peter Bruce elected to membership of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
January 2025
Department of Engineering Science
- Dr Joana Pinto recognised with the inaugural 'Leading Researcher of the Year: Sex/Gender in Neuroscience' Award by Women in Neuroscience UK
Department of Physics
- Professor James Binney awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of the structure and evolution of galaxies
- Dr Patrick Heighway awarded the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility (XFEL) Young Scientist Award