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2026 awards

April 2026

Department of Statistics

  • Professor Christl Donnelly awarded the Royal Statistical Society’s silver Guy Medal 2026

Department of Physics

  • Professor Maria Vincenzi awarded New Horizons in Physics Prize
  • Dr Babak Abi, Dr Farrukh Azfar and Dr Sam Henry named as recipients of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their work with the Fermilab collaboration

March 2026

Department of Engineering Science

  • Dr Joram van Rheede receives an EPSRC Open Fellowship.

February 2026

Department of Engineering Science

  • Associate Professor James Kwan awarded an EPSRC Open fellowship
  • EPSRC Open fellowship awarded to Dr Christian Schroeder de Witt
  • Professor Eleanor Stride awarded Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers

January 2026

Department of Biology

  • Fellowship of the British Ecological Society (FBES) awarded to Dr Keith Kirby 
  • Professor Rob Salguero-Gómez receives a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society (FBES)

Department of Computer Science

  • Professor Leslie Ann Goldberg elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow

Department of Earth Sciences

  • Associate Professor Paula Koelemeijer awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Award (Geophysics)

Department of Materials

  • Professor Robert House awarded an inaugural Royal Academy of Engineering’s Green Future Fellowship

Department of Physics

  • Professor Suzanne Aigrain awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s George Darwin Lectureship
  • Dr Deaglan Bartlett awarded the Early Career Award (Astronomy) by the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Professor Andrew Bunker awarded the Herschel Medal, which recognises investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics
  • Professor Moritz Riede awarded an inaugural Royal Academy of Engineering’s Green Future Fellowship
  • Associate Professor Alexander Mietke awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics’ Early Career Scientist Prize in Biological Physics 2024

Department of Statistics

  • Professor Christl Donnelly elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow

Mathematical Institute

  • Professor José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Professor Gui-Qiang George Chen elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Professor Rama Cont elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Professor Jason Lotay elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Professor James Maynard elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Professor Christoph Reisinger elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Zubin Siganporia elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow
  • Professor Sarah Waters elected as an inaugural Academy for the Mathematical Sciences fellow