2024 awards
September 2024
Department of Biology
- Professor Nathalie Seddon awarded the Marsh Award for Ecology 2024
- Professor Berta Verd awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Christian Coester awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Tim Denison elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Professor Paul Shearing elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Department of Physics
- Professor Julia Yeomans awarded the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division’s Liquid Matter Prize
August 2024
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Darren Dixon announced as the 2024 recipient of the Charles Rees Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Professor Véronique Gouverneur awarded the Royal Society's Davy Medal and the 2024 Prous Institute – Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor Erin Saupe presented with Paleontological Society’s Schuchert Award
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Dame Molly Stevens awarded the Royal Society's Armourers and Brasiers Company Prize
- Dr Binjian Nie awarded the Innovation Award from the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET)
Department of Physics
- Professor Tony Bell awarded the Royal Society's Rumford Medal
- Professor Hannah Christensen awarded the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award by the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- Dr Judith Hillier elected as Vice-President for Learning and Skills on the Institute of Physics Council
Mathematical Institute
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Professor Philip Maini awarded the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal
July 2024
Department of Chemistry
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Professor Dame Carol Robinson presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the European Inventor Award
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda awarded the IACM John Argyris Award for Young Scientists
Department of Materials
- Professor Susie Speller awarded the Institute of Physics' 2024 Pippard Prize
- Professor Rob Weatherup awarded the Analytical Science Early Career Joseph Black Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Department of Physics
- Professor Andrea Cavalleri awarded the European Physical Society’s Europhysics Prize 2024
- Professor Sonia Antoranz Contera awarded the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) Merit Award 2024
- Professor Gavin Salam awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science
- Dr Raghavendra Srinivas awarded Optica’s Theodor W Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics
Mathematical Institute
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Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen awarded the Pólya Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS)
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Professor Emmanuel Breuillard awarded the Fröhlich Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS)
- Professor Balint Koczor awarded a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship
- Professor Marc Lackenby awarded a Frontiers of Science award from the International Congress of Basic Science
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Professor James Newton awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS)
- Professor Andrew Wiles awarded a Basic Science Lifetime Award from the International Congress of Basic Science
June 2024
Department of Chemistry
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Professor Harry Anderson awarded the Pedler Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Professor Robert Hoye awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Professor Dermot O’Hare awarded the John B Goodenough Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Professor Angela Russell awarded the Chemistry Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Professor Dame Carol Robinson elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
Department of Physics
- Dr Heloise Stevance awarded the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship 2024 of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Alain Goriely appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry
- Professor Alison Etheridge OBE FRS becomes the first president of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences
May 2024
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Simon Aldridge elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor Tamsin Mather elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Engineering Science
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Professor Constantin Coussios elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- Professor Lionel Tarassenko appointed as a non-political life peer in the House of Lords
Department of Materials
- Professor Brian Cantor (Visiting Professor) elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Physics
- Professor Laura Herz elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Emmanuel Breuillard elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- Professor Alison Etheridge appointed First President of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences
April 2024
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Véronique Gouverneur awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
- Professor Robert Hoye awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship
Department of Engineering Science
- Dr Binjian Nie awarded the IChemE Nicklin Medal
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Professor Jin-Chong Tan awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
Department of Physics
- Professor Marina Filip awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Semiconductors (C8) Early Career Scientist Prize 2023
- Dr Shuqiu Wang awarded the Oxford Instruments Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for Europe 2024
March 2024
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Varun Kanade made a Turing Fellow
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Xiaowen Dong made a Turing Fellow
- Dr Nikita Hari appointed as a member of the UK Young Academy
- Dr Sara Keller awarded L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Rising Talent fellowship for Engineering
- Professor Noa Zilberman made a Turing Fellow
Department of Materials
- Dr Anastasia Soeriyadi awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Physics
- Dr Andrew Siemion awarded the SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Award
February 2024
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Michael Wooldridge appointed specialist adviser to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee
Department of Earth Sciences
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Professor David Pyle awarded the 2024 Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London
Department of Materials
- Professor Sir Peter Bruce elected to membership of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Department of Physics
- Professor Stephen Smartt awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship
January 2024
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Fernanda Duarte named as a Finalist in the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor Mike Kendall awarded the 2024 Gold Medal for Geophysics from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
Department of Physics
- Professor Jayne Birkby named as a Finalist in the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK
- Professor Pedro Ferreira awarded the 2024 Eddington Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)