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The Royal Society building at Carlton House Terrace

Congratulations to the MPLS researchers who have been awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowships for 2022.

The recently revised University Research Fellowship (URF) scheme provides financial support for outstanding researchers in the early stages of their careers to pursue cutting-edge scientific research.

This year’s fellowship recipients based at the University of Oxford are:

  • Dr Ross Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences – Preserving the rise of complex life
  • Dr Abhirup Banerjee, Department of Engineering Science – Multimodal reconstruction of digital heart for cardiac interventions in real-time
  • Dr Nick Bultinck, Department of Physics – Strongly interacting electrons in synthetic superlattices
  • Dr Kaibo Hu, Mathematical Institute – Finite elements for geometry
  • Dr James Matthews, Department of Physics – Extreme cosmic accelerators: High-energy particles and feedback from black hole jets and winds

Professor Laura Herz, Associate Head (Research) in the MPLS Division, said: 'It's wonderful to see our early career researchers being recognised for their novel and ground-breaking research and I am delighted for all the recipients. We all look forward to following their projects as they develop over the course of the fellowship.'

The full list of 2022/23 recipients was announced by the Royal Society this week.

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