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2023 awards

May 2023

Department of Biology

  • Dr Jani Bolla awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 

  • 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

  • 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

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