MPLS Awards and Prizes

December 2024

Department of Chemistry

• Associate Professor Matthew Langton awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants

Department of Earth Science

• Professor Ros Rickaby appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Biogeochemistry in the New Year Honours 2025

Department of Physics

• Dr Boon-Kok Tan awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants

Department of Statistics

• Professor Alison Etheridge appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to Mathematical Sciences in the New Year Honours 2025

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Dawid Kielak awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants
• Associate Professor Mark Mezei awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants

November 2024

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Christiane Timmel awarded the International EPR (ESR) Society Medal in Chemistry for 2024

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Min Chen presented with the 2024 VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award

Department of Physics

• Professor Michael Johnston awarded the Max Born Medal and Prize 2025 by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) and Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert awarded the Cassini Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Ben Green awarded the inaugural I. Martin Isaacs Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing by the American Mathematical Society

October 2024

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Natalia Ares awarded a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize

• Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda awarded the Emerging Talent Award 2024 of the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) and the Banco Santander Foundation

Department of Materials

• Professor Saiful Islam awarded the Faraday Institution's 2024 STEM Outreach/Public Engagement Award

Department of Physics

• Professor Stephen Blundell awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize
• Professor Laura Herz awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize
• Professor Simon Hooker selected to become an American Physical Society Fellow
• Professor Justin Wark awarded the American Physical Society’s George E Duvall Shock Compression Science Award 2025

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
• Dr Maria Lissner awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship
• 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

• Professor Philip Maini awarded the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal

July 2024

Department of Chemistry

• 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

• Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen awarded the Pólya Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS)

• 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

• 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

• Professor Harry Anderson awarded the Pedler Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• Professor Robert Hoye awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• Professor Dermot O’Hare awarded the John B Goodenough Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• Professor Angela Russell awarded the Chemistry Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry 

• 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

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

• 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 

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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

• Professor Ludmilla Steier awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

• 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

• Mihir Sheth awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year award

• 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

• Professor Paul Newman appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the King's Birthday Honours

• 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 

• 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

December 2022

Department of Chemistry 

• Professor Fernanda Duarte Gonzalez awarded the Novartis Early Career Award in Chemistry 2022

November 2022

Department of Earth Sciences

• Dr Ross Anderson awarded a 2022 Royal Society University Research Fellowship

• Professor James Bryson awarded a 2022 European Research Council Starting Grant

• Professor Julie Cosmidis awarded a 2022 European Research Council Starting Grant

Department of Engineering Science

• Dr Abhirup Banerjee awarded a 2022 Royal Society University Research Fellowship

• Professor Christopher Proctor awarded a 2022 European Research Council Starting Grant

Department of Materials

• Professor Richard Todd elected a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society 

Department of Physics

• Dr Nick Bultinck awarded a 2022 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
• Dr Joseph Goodwin awarded a 2022 European Research Council Starting Grant
• Dr James Matthews awarded a 2022 Royal Society University Research Fellowship

Department of Statistics

• Sahra Ghalebikesabi awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

Mathematical Institute

• Dr Kaibo Hu awarded a 2022 Royal Society University Research Fellowship

October 2022

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor David Clifton awarded the IEEE “Early Career Award” for 2022
• Professor Harrison Steel awarded a 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize

Department of Materials

• Professor Sebastian Bonilla awarded a 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize

Department of Physics

• Professor JC Séamus Davis awarded the 2023 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society
• Professor Gianluca Gregori awarded the 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize of the Institute of Physics
• Dr Hariom Jani warded the Emerging Investigator Medal and Prize 2021 by the Institute of Physics Singapore
• Professor Michael Johnston made a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society

Mathematical Institute

• Dr Kaibo Hu awarded the SIAM Early Career Prize in Computational Science and Engineering

September 2022

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Niki Trigoni elected as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Mike Kendall elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor David Hills elected as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow

Mathematical Institute

• Professor James Maynard awarded a New Horizons Prize for Early-Career Achievements in Mathematics

August 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Iain McCulloch awarded the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Company Prize
• Professor Dame Carol Robinson awarded the 2022 European Chemistry Gold Medal
• Professor Charlotte Williams awarded the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Andrew Zisserman awarded the Bakerian Medal of the Royal Society

Department of Materials

• Professor Saiful Islam awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society

Department of Physics

• Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society
• Professor Henry Snaith awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Roger Heath-Brown awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society

July 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Dr Craig Campbell awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE

Department of Engineering Science

• Anahy Mercado Zambrana awarded an upReach Student Social Mobility Award

Department of Materials

• Dr Clara Barker awarded a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Sir John Ball awarded the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society
• Professor Ian Griffiths awarded a Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
• Professor Dawid Kielak awarded a Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
• Professor James Maynard named one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal

June 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Dr Emily Flashman awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Norman Heatley Award
• Professor Volker Deringer awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize
• Professor Timothy Donohoe awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Tilden Prize

Department of Computer Science

• Hunar Batra awarded a Google Women in Computer Science Generation Scholarship Award

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Laurence Brassart awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
• Professor Constantin Coussios appointed OBE in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours
• Yana Lishkova awarded an Amelia Earhart Fellowship

Department of Materials

• Professor Peter Bruce appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours and also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Longstaff Prize

Department of Physics

• Professor Laura Herz awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-career Award
• Professor Alex Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation

Department of Statistics

• Professor Charlotte Deane appointed MBE in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours
• Sheheryar Zaidi awarded a Google PhD Fellowship

Team and Spin-out Awards

• The Molecular Flow Sensor Team (Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Analytical Division Horizon Prize
• Team Nanobodies (The Rosalind Franklin Institute in Oxford and international collaborators) awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Chemistry Biology Interface Division Horizon Prize
• Dr Holly Reeve, CEO of HydRegen Ltd. and formerly of the Department of Chemistry, awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal

May 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Véronique Gouverneur elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Professor Peter Hore made a Fellow of the Royal Society

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Ros Rickaby made a Fellow of the Royal Society

Department of Physics

• Professor Ian Shipsey made a Fellow of the Royal Society

Department of Zoology

• Professor Oliver Pybus made a Fellow of the Royal Society
• Professor Ben Sheldon made a Fellow of the Royal Society
• Professor Kathy Willis appointed as a peer in the House of Lords

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Fernando Alday made a Fellow of the Royal Society
• Professor Alain Goriely made a Fellow of the Royal Society
• Professor Ehud Hrushovski joint winner of this year's Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
• Dr Bernadette Stolz awarded L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Rising Talent fellowship

April 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Philipp Kukura awarded the 2022 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award by The Protein Society.

Department of Zoology

• Professor Nathalie Seddon appointed to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) Adaptation Committee

March 2022

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Standa Zivny awarded a five-year €2M European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Engineering Science/Department of Materials

• Professor Edmund Tarleton made a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Jonathan Pila awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics

February 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Simon Aldridge awarded a Humboldt Research Award
• Professor Dame Carol Robinson appointed as one of the 2022 Class of Fellows of the Biophysical Society
• Dr Patricia Rodriguez Macia selected as the winner of the Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group’s Early Career Researcher Award for 2022

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Chris Ballentine made a Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
• Professor Gideon Henderson made a Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
• Professor Tamsin Mather made a Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

January 2022

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Volker Deringer awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Erin Saupe announced as a Finalist in the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom

Department of Physics

• Professor Myles Allen appointed CBE in the New Year's Honours 2022
• Professor JC Séamus Davis elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Professor Pedro Gil Ferreira awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Gerald Whitrow Lecture in Astronomy
• Dr Tim Lichtenberg awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Winton Award for Early Achievement in Geophysics 
• Dr Becky Smethurst awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Winton Award for Astronomy

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

 

December 2020

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Andrew Baldwin awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant
• Professor Susan Perkin awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Eleanor Stride appointed OBE in the New Year's Honours List 2021
• Professor Andrea Vedaldi awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Plant Sciences

• Dr Francesco Licausi awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Zoology

• Professor Aris Katzourakis awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

November 2020

Department of Chemistry

• Professor José Goicoechea elected the recipient of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation
• Professor Fernanda Duarte Gonzalez awarded the third annual Frank Blaney Award of the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Ian Horrocks and Prof Michael Wooldridge awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2020
• Professor Joel Ouaknine and Professor James Worrell jointly awarded the Salomaa Prize of the Development in Language Theory Symposium

Department of Materials

• Professor Peter Nellist awarded a Royal Microscopical Society Honorary Fellowship
• Emeritus Professor George Smith awarded a Royal Microscopical Society Honorary Fellowship

Department of Physics

• Professor Amalia Coldea awarded the Institute of Physics’ Brian Pippard Prize. 
• Professor Gianluca Gregori awarded the American Physical Society’s John Dawson Award for excellence in plasma physics research

Department of Plant Sciences

• Rosemary Wise, Departmental Botanical Illustrator, awarded the Engler Medal in Silver of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy

Department of Zoology

• Professor Martin Maiden awarded the Marjory Stephenson Prize and lecture by the Microbiology Society

Mathematical Institute

• Dr Robin Thompson awarded the Journal of Clinical Medicine Outstanding Research Award 2020

October 2020

Department of Chemistry

• Dr Brianna Heazlewood awarded the Institute of Physics’ Henry Moseley Medal and Prize

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Eleanor Stride made an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Department of Materials

• Professor Nicole Grobert elected Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission

Department of Physics

• Professor Simon Hooker awarded the Institute of Physics’ Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize
• Dr Adam Nahum awarded the Philippe Meyer Prize in Theoretical Physics 2020
• Dr Becky Smethurst awarded the Institute of Physics’ Mary Somerville Medal 

Department of Statistics

• Professor Christl Donnelly awarded the Frink Medal of the Zoolological Society of London (ZSL)

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Roger Penrose is joint winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics

September 2020

Department of Chemistry

• Dr Brianna Heazlewood awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

Department of Engineering Science

• Dr Marko Bacic awarded Royal Academy of Engineering 2020 Silver Medal
• Professor Richard Stone elected Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow

Department of Materials

• Dr Natalia Ares awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
• Professor Rob Weatherup awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

Department of Physics

• Dr Lorenzo Tancredi awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

Department of Plant Sciences

• Dr Charlotte Kirchhelle awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

August 2020

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Ben Davis awarded the Royal Society Davy Medal 2020
• Dr Claudia Tait awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Zhanfeng Cui and his team awarded one of the Royal Academy of Engineering's President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service for their rapid viral RNA test for COVID-19

Department of Materials

• Professor George Smith awarded the Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers' Company Prize 2020

Department of Physics

• Dr Bruno Bertini awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020
• Dr Christopher O'Reilly awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020
• Dr Mao Zeng awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020

Department of Plant Sciences

• Dr Ronelle Roth awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Bryan Birch awarded the Royal Society Sylvester Medal 2020
• Dr Erik Panzer awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020
• Dr Richard Wade awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for 2020

JULY 2020

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Thomas Lukasiewicz elected a fellow of the European Association for AI (EurAI)

Department of Physics

• Professor Roger Davies elected to the Academia Europaea
• Professor Séamus Davis awarded the Olli V Lounasmaa Memorial Prize 2020

Department of Zoology

• Professor Ben Sheldon elected to the Academia Europaea

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Martin Bridson elected to the Academia Europaea
• Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
• Professor James Maynard elected to the Academia Europaea
• Professor Andrea Mondino awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS)
• Professor Endre Süli elected to the Academia Europaea

JUNE 2020

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Ed Anderson named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Bader Award
• Professor Andrew Baldwin named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Norman Heatley Award
• Professor Vernon Gibson, MPLS Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lord Lewis Prize
• Professor Madhavi Krishnan named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Corday-Morgan Prize
• Professor Christiane Timmel named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Tilden Prize

Department of Physics

• Professor Brian Foster OBE, FRS made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• Dr Rebecca Smethurst awarded the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the William Herschel Society with the Royal Astronomical Society

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Ulrike Tillmann announced as President Designate of the London Mathematical Society (LMS)

MAY 2020

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Janet Pierrehumbert awarded the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) 2020 Medal for Scientific Achievement 
• Professor Jin-Chong Tan awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant 2020

Department of Physics

• Professor Philip Burrows appointed Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI) 

Department of Plant Sciences

• Professor Jane Langdale admitted as a Corresponding Member to the Australian Academy of Science
• Dr Pablo Muñoz Rodríguez awarded the first Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) E-SCoRe Award

Department of Zoology

• Professor Kayla King awarded The  Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society
• Professor Ben Sheldon awarded The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Helen Byrne made a Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology

APRIL 2020

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Georg Gottlob awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Jonathan Blundy awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship

Department of Materials

• Professor Peter Nellist elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Department of Physics

• Professor J.C. Séamus Davis awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship
• Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
• Professor Tim Palmer elected an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Ehud Hrushovski elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

MARCH 2020

Department of Physics

• Professor Stephen Blundell awarded the Yamazaki Prize by the International Society for Muon Spectroscopy

Department of Statistics

• Professor Arnaud Doucet awarded the Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Konstantin Ardakov awarded the 2020 Adams Prize
• Professor Derek Moulton and Professor Alain Goriely awarded the 2019 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize in the Engineering and Applied Sciences, together with Prof. Régis Chirat (University of Lyon)

FEBRUARY 2020

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Nick Hankins elected a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Professor Alexander Korsunsky elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Department of Statistics

• Emeritus Professor Bernard Silverman appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Department of Zoology

• Dr Amy Dickman chosen as one of National Geographic’s ‘Women of Impact’

JANUARY 2020

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Niki Trigoni wins CTO of the year award at Women in IT Awards London 2020

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor David Pyle awarded the Thermo Fisher Scientific VMSG 2020 Award

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Eleanor Stride announced as a Finalist in the 2020 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom

Department of Materials

• Dr Alison Crossley is the first female winner of the Rivière Prize

Department of Physics

• Professor Steve Balbus awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Professor Rob Fender awarded the Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Dr Adam Nahum awarded the Physik-Preis Dresden

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Nick Trefethen awarded the 2020 John von Neumann Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

DECEMBER 2019

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Emily Flashman awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant
• Dr Michael Booth presented with the 2019 Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award in Biotechnology

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Sam Staton awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Earth Sciences

• Dr Kate Kiseeva awarded the Max Hey Medal of the Mineralogical Society for 2020
• Professor Hauke Marquardt awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Materials

• Professor Sergio Lozano-Perez presented with the first Framatome Excellence in Nuclear Reactor Science in the UK Award

Department of Physics

• Professor Suzanne Aigrain awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant

Department of Zoology

• Dr Margaret Varga presented with the 2019 NATO Scientific Achievement Award

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Christopher Beem awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant
• Professor Nick Woodhouse appointed CBE for services to mathematics in the New Year's Honours list 2020

NOVEMBER 2019

Mathematical Institute

• Professor James Maynard awarded the 2020 Cole Prize in Number Theory

OCTOBER 2019

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Alison Noble awarded the 2019 Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society Enduring Impact Award
• Professor Eleanor Stride announced as one of the top 100 Most Influential Women in the Engineering Sector

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Martin Bridson wins the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the American Mathematical Society
• Professor Ehud Hrushovski awarded the Heinz Hopf Prize at ETH Zurich which honours outstanding scientific achievements in the field of pure mathematics

SEPTEMBER 2019

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Charlotte Williams awarded a five-year Established Career Fellowship by the EPSRC

Department of Computer Science

• Dr Christoph Haase awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Alan Cocks elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Professor Constantin Coussios elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Professor Peter Ireland elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Professor Philip Torr elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Department of Statistics

• Professor Pier Palamara awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant

Department of Zoology

• Dr Sarah Knowles awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant

Mathematical Institute

• Professor James Maynard awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant
• Professor Sarah Waters elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

AUGUST 2019

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Mike Searle elected to the Academia Europaea 

Department of Engineering Science 

• Dr João Henriques awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship
• Dr Tingting Zhu awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship

Department of Materials

• Dr Sebastian Bonilla awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship

Department of Statistics

• Professor Charlotte Deane appointed as Deputy Executive Chair of EPSRC

Mathematical Institute

• Professor Roger Penrose elected to the Academia Europaea
• Professor Nick Trefethen elected to the Academia Europaea

JULY 2019

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Hagan Bayley awarded the Royal Society Mullard Award
• Professor Stuart Conway became President of the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Division
• Professor Sir Michael Pepper awarded the Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
• Professor Dame Carol Robinson awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society

Department of Earth Sciences

• Professor Gideon Henderson appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Department of Engineering Science 

• Professor Paul Newman awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal
• Professor Alison Noble awarded the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society
• Professor Andrew Zisserman awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship 

Department of Physics

• Professor Alexander Schekochihin awarded the Institute of Physics 2019 Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal
• Professor Ian Shipsey awarded the Institute of Physics 2019 Chadwick Medal and Prize

Department of Zoology

• Professor Peter Holland awarded the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society
• Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the Society for Conservation Biology

Mathematical Institute

• Professor David Conlon awarded a 2019 London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize  
• Professor Ben Green awarded a 2019 London Mathematical Society Senior Whitehead Prize
• Professor Andrew Wiles awarded a 2019 London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal

JUNE 2019

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Marta Kwiatkowska named as the recipient of the 2019 BCS Lovelace Medal

Department of Materials

• Professor Lapo Bogdani received the Zasshikai Lectureship Award of the University of Tokyo
• Professor Richard Todd and colleagues received the 2019 Ross Coffin Purdy Award of the American Ceramic Society

Department of Physics

• Dr Sarah Rugheimer named as the British Science Association Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture winner for Physical Sciences and Mathematics 

Department of Statistics

• Professor Peter Donnelly knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours

Department of Zoology

• Professor Dame Angela McLean appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence

MAY 2019

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Justin Benesch: Royal Society of Chemistry Norman Heatley Award Winner 2019
• Professor Ben Davis made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• Professor Roel Dullens: Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize Winner 2019
• Professor Véronique Gouverneur: Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Stereochemistry Award Winner 2019
• Professor Dermot O’Hare and the SCG-Oxford Centre of Excellence in Chemistry: Royal Society of Chemistry Industry-Academia Collaboration Award Winner 2019
• Professor Christopher Schofield: Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize Winner 2019 

Department of Engineering Science

• Professor Janet Pierrehumbert appointed as a new member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

Department of Materials

• Professor Richard Todd received the 2019 Stuijts Award of the European Ceramic Society
• Professor Jamie Warner awarded the 2019 ACS Nano Lectureship for Europe

Department of Physics

• Professor Katherine Blundell elected the next Gresham Professor of Astronomy
• Dr Roger Johnson awarded the BTM Willis prize of the Institute of Physics and RSC Neutron Scattering groups
• Professor Michael Johnston received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation
• Professor Achillefs Kapandis recognized as the BBSRC Innovator of the Year for his work on his spinout Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) with Bo Jing, his former student and now CEO. He was also awarded the commercial innovator of the year category
• Emeritus Reader Clive Rodgers awarded the Symons Gold Medal of the  Royal Meterological Society
• Emeritus Savilian Professor of Astronomy Joe Silk shares the 2019 Gruber Prize for Cosmology

Department of Plant Sciences

• Professor Jane Langdale appointed a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

Department of Statistics

• Professor Christina Goldschmidt made a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Department of Zoology

• Dr Sarah Hill awarded the Linnean Society's John C Marsden Medal for the best doctoral thesis in biology

Rosalind Franklin Institute 

• Professor James Naismith: Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize Winner 2019

APRIL 2019

Department of Chemistry

• Professor Véronique Gouverneur elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Department of Computer Science

• Professor Marta Kwiatkowska elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Department of Physics

• Professor Tim Palmer elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mathematical Institute

•  Professor Artur Ekert awarded a Micius Quantum Prize 2019 (Theory category)