2023 awards
December 2023
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Molly Stevens appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to Medicine in the New Year Honours 2024
Department of Materials
- Professor Saiful Islam awarded the 2023 Robert Perrin Award of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3)
- Professor Richard Todd announced as the next President of the European Ceramic Society
Department of Physics
- Professor Daniela Bortoletto appointed OBE for services to Particle Physics and to Gender Equality in the New Year Honours 2024
- Professor Moritz Riede appointed Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC)
- Professor Julia Yeomans appointed OBE for services to Physics in the New Year Honours 2024
Mathematical Institute
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Professor Roger Heath-Brown appointed OBE for services to Mathematics and Mathematical Research in the New Year Honours 2024
November 2023
Biology
- Dr Sophus zu Ermgassen awarded the NERC Early Career Impact Award 2023
- Dr Erola Fenollosa awarded the John L. Harper Award from the British Ecological Society
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Alessandro Abate named 2024 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Professor Aleks Kissinger awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant
Department of Earth Sciences
- Dr Laura Stevens awarded a 2024 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor David Hills awarded the 2023 Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Tribology Silver Medal
Department of Materials
- Dr Clara Barker appointed Inclusion and Diversity Representative for the Institute of Physics (IoP)
Department of Physics
- Professor Fabrizio Caola awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant
- Professor Amalia Coldea made a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Professor Radu Coldea made a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society
Department of Statistics
- Professor Charlotte Deane named as Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
October 2023
Department of Computer Science
- Dr Sebastian Köhler awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Department of Physics
- Professor James Binney awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
- Professor Gavin Salam awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize
- Professor Ian Shipsey awarded an Institute of Physics (IOP) Honorary Fellowship
September 2023
Department of Biology
- Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen named as a 'Shooting Star' at the Politiken Science Festival in Copenhagen
Department of Chemistry
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Professor Ludmilla Steier awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
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Professor Yujia Qing awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Emilio Martinez-Paneda awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
- Dylan Sherman appointed as the 2023 Ashok Kumar Fellow by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Materials Processing Institute, in partnership with POST (the UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology)
Department of Materials
- Professor Harish Bhaskaran elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineering
Department of Physics
- Professor John Cardy named as joint laureate for the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2024
- Dr Dominika Gruszka honoured as one of six 2023 Vallee Scholars
- Professor Peter Norreys awarded the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award
Department of Statistics
- Dr Oliver Crook announced as the winner of the 2023 Young Biometrician Award by the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society
- Dr Tom Rainforth awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
August 2023
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Hagan Bayley awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society
Department of Computer Science
- Sir Antony Hoare awarded the Royal Medal (Physical) of the Royal Society
Department of Physics
- Professor Paolo Radaelli awarded the Institute of Physics’ and the Italian Physical Society’s Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Artur Ekert awarded the Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture of the Royal Society
- Professor Alison Etheridge awarded the 2023 IMA-LMS David Crighton Medal
July 2023
Department of Engineering Science
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Mihir Sheth awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year award
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Professor Harrison Steel awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year award, and the RAEng Sir George Macfarlane medal
Department of Statistics
- Professor Frank Windmeijer elected 2023 British Academy Fellow
Mathematical Institute
- Professor András Juhász awarded the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
- Professor Frances Kirwan awarded the Pólya prize of the London Mathematical Society
June 2023
Department of Biology
- Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the King's Birthday Honours
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Tom Brown awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Khorana Prize
- Dr Josef Boronski awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
- Professor Darren Dixon awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Prize
- Professor Stephen Fletcher awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Merck, Sharp and Dohme Prize
- Professor Dame Carol Robinson elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society (APS) for 2023
- Professor Ludmilla Steier awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Michael Bronstein awarded a UKRI Turing AI World Leading Fellowship
Department of Engineering Science
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Professor Paul Newman appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the King's Birthday Honours
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Professor Alison Noble appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the King's Birthday Honours and awarded a UKRI Turing AI World Leading Fellowship
Department of Materials
- Professor Saiful Islam awarded the 2023 IoM3 Robert Perrin Award of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3)
- Professor Robert Weatherup awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Joseph Black Prize
Department of Physics
- Professor Chris Lintott appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy
- Professor Timothy Palmer awarded the IMO prize of the World Meteorological Organization
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Frances Kirwan awarded a 2023 L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award
May 2023
Department of Biology
- Dr Jani Bolla awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
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Dr Robert Montgomery awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Andrew Goodwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Andrzej Murawski awarded a Humboldt Research Award
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor Zhanfeng Cui elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Department of Physics
- Professor Myles Allen elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- Professor Tim Palmer elected Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Department of Statistics
- Professor Alison Etheridge elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States
Mathematical Institute
- Professor José Carrillo elected to Academia Europaea
- Professor James Maynard elected Fellow of the Royal Society
April 2023
Department of Biology
- Professor Tim Coulson awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
- Professor Craig MacLean awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
- Dr Carmen Sánchez-Cañizares awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Department of Chemistry
- Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman awarded the 2023 Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Lighthill-Thwaites Prize
- Professor Carol Robinson awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Marta Kwiatkowska elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Department of Engineering Science
- Professor James Kwan awarded the the Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound
Department of Statistics
- Professor Alison Etheridge elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mathematical Institute
- Professor Chris Breward appointed inaugural Scientific Director of the UK’s new Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences
- Professor Coralia Cartis elected as a 2023 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Dr Jane Ivy Coons awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science Rising Talent Award
- Professor Philip Maini awarded the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) Gold Medal 2022
March 2023
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt appointed to advise the Competition and Markets Authority
- Professor Niki Trigoni awarded CI/TO of the Year at Women in IT awards
February 2023
Department of Biology
- Professor Dame Angela McLean named new Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Department of Computer Science
- Professor Marta Kwiatkowska awarded a Polish Titular Professorship
- Professor Edith Elkind awarded the 2023 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
Department of Earth Sciences
- Professor Ros Rickaby awarded the 2023 Science Innovation Award of the European Association of Geochemistry
Department of Physics
- Professor Hannah Christensen awarded a £1m Leverhulme Research Leadership Award
Department of Statistics
- Prof Patrick Rebeschini awarded a €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant in Computer Science and Informatics
January 2023
Department of Chemistry
- Professor Susan Perkin named Award Laureate in the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK
Department of Earth Sciences
- Dr Richard Palin awarded the Max Hey Medal of the Mineralogical Society for 2023
Department of Physics
- Professor Tim Palmer awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Gold Medal for Geophysics