2021 awards
December 2021
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Véronique Gouverneur awarded the 2021 International Henri Moissan Prize
Department of Physics
- Professor Philip Stier elected President of the Atmospheric Sciences division of the European Geosciences Union
Mathematical Institute
- Professor José Carrillo elected Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Science Agency
November 2021
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Dame Carol Robinson awarded a 2022 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine and also awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Yarin Gal announced as one of five ‘Samsung AI Researcher of the Year’ award winners
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Zhanfeng Cui elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
- Dr Andrew P. Creagh awarded an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Healthcare Technologies Award
- Dr Lei Lu awarded an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Healthcare Technologies Award
Department of Physics
- Professor Steve Balbus awarded the Paul Dirac Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
- Professor Daniela Bortoletto awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics
- Dr Rebecca Bowler awarded the Henry Moseley Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
- Professor Roger Davies awarded the Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
- Professor David Deutsch awarded the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
- Professor Tim Palmer awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics
- Professor Philip Stier awarded the Edward Appleton Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
- Professor Julia Yeomans awarded the Sam Edwards Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021
- Dr Alexandra Ramadan awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award
October 2021
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Véronique Gouverneur awarded the 2022 ACS Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society
Mathematical Institute
- Emeritus Professor Sir Roger Penrose presented with the 2020 Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea
September 2021
Department of Chemistry
- Dr Weston Struwe awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Marta Kwiatkowska is joint winner of the Van Wijngaarden Awards 2021
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Byron Byrne elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Dr Christopher Vogel awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Department of Materials
- Dr Robert Weatherup awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Department of Physics
- Dr Kirsty Duffy awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- Professor Henry Snaith one of seven internationally leading scientists to be awarded the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 2022
Department of Plant Sciences
- Dr Carmen Sánchez-Cañizares awarded the Highly Commended Award For Women In Science Rising Talent Award
Department of Zoology
- Dr Irem Sepil awarded the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship for 2021
Mathematical Institute
- Dr James Newton awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
August 2021
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Stephen Davies awarded the Mullard Award of the Royal Society
Department of Materials
- Dr Robert House awarded a Royal Society of Engineering Research Fellowship
Department of Physics
- Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society
- Professor Lesley Gray elected President of the Royal Meteorological Society
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Dame Frances Kirwan awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society
July 2021
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Michael Wooldridge appointed as a Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellow
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Richard Compton elected to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- Professor Philipp Kukura awarded the 2021 Medal for Light Microscopy by the Royal Microscopical Society
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Philip Torr appointed as a Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellow
Department of Physics
- Emeritus Professor Tony Bell awarded the 2021 Yodh Prize of the University of California, Irvine
- Professor Philip Burrows elected Institute of Physics Member of Council
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Patrick Farrell awarded a Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
- Professor Ehud Hrushovski awarded a Pólya Prize of the London Mathematical Society
- Professor Endre Süli awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship of the London Mathematical Society
- Professor Stuart White awarded a Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
June 2021
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Fernanda Duarte awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Professor Andrew Goodwin awarded the Peter Day Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Professor Charlotte Williams awarded the Tilden Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Edith Elkind made a Fellow by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)
Department of Engineering Science
- Dr. Saiful Khan awarded a RAMP Early Career Investigator Award (RECIA) by the Royal Society
Department of Physics
- Dr Suhas Mahesh awarded a Schmidt Science Fellowship
- Dr Antje Weisheimer awarded the Buchan Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society
Department of Plant Sciences
- Emeritus Professor Liam Dolan appointed Queen's Trustee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens
Department of Statistics
- Professor Alison Etheridge appointed Chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences
- Emeritus Professor Sir Bernard Silverman appointed Chair of the Geospatial Commission
May 2021
Interdepartmental (Materials and Physics)
- Mathias Rothmann, Judy Kim, Juliane Borchert, Kilian Lohmann, Colum O'Leary, Alex Sheader, Laura Clark, Henry Snaith, Michael Johnston, Pete Nellist and Laura Herz awarded the 2020 European Microscopy Society Outstanding Paper Award in the area of Materials Sciences for their paper 'Atomic-scale Microstructure of Metal Halide Perovskite'
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Charlotte Williams elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Philip Torr elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Physics
- Professor Frank Close elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Endre Süli elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
April 2021
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Richard Stone elected an SAE Fellow 2020
March 2021
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Michael Wooldridge awarded the 2021 AAAI Outstanding Educator Award (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
February 2021
Department of Materials
- Dr Robin Morris awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Physics