5 May 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Alison Etheridge has been elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.
\n \n\n \n \n21 April 2023
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Alison Etheridge (Mathematical Institute and Department of Statistics) and Professor Marta Kwiatkowska (Department of Computer Science, and Associate Head for Finance in the MPLS Divisional Office) who have been elected as International Honorary Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
\n \n\n \n \n7 April 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Craig MacLean, Professor Tim Coulson and Professor Dame Carol Robinson have all been awarded the prestigious grants recognising ground-breaking projects.
\n \n\n \n \n24 March 2023
\n \n \n \nOxford University has been awarded an institutional Silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our collective and continued efforts to advance gender equality across the University.
\n \n\n \n \n24 March 2023
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Daisy Hung, Bob Mahoney and Lauren Wild in the MPLS Divisional Office, and Louisa Bailey (Head of Administration and Finance, Earth Sciences), who were amongst the joint winners and finalists for the inaugural Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Professional Services Awards announced on Tuesday 21 March.
\n \n\n \n \n14 March 2023
\n \n \n \nThe University was recognised with one of three awards for UK universities at the Higher Education Business Continuity Network (HEBCoN) Awards 2023 last week in Cardiff, thanks to collaborative work last term, involving staff across MPLS, to prepare for potential energy supply disruption this winter.
\n \n\n \n \n8 March 2023
\n \n \n \nThe annual STEM for BRITAIN competition gives early-career researchers an opportunity to present their work directly to Members of Parliament and other UK policy makers.
\n \n\n \n \n18 January 2023
\n \n \n \nResearch staff and academics across the Division have been recognised as winners of the inaugural MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision, announced today.
\n \n\n \n \n18 January 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor of Physical Chemistry, Susan Perkin, has been named Award Laureate in the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. The award comes in recognition of her experimental work using a custom-built instrument \u2013 known as the Surface Force Balance \u2013 to determine the properties of fluids.
\n \n\n \n \n13 January 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Tim Palmer has today received the Royal Astronomical Society\u2019s 2023 Gold Medal for Geophysics for his outstanding work in advancing the understanding and prediction of climate and weather.
\n \n\n \n \n9 December 2022
\n \n \n \nSaiful Islam, Professor of Materials Modelling in the Department of Materials, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association (BSA) for his work on new materials for lithium and sodium batteries, solid oxide fuel cells and perovskite solar cells in the field of energy.
\n \n\n \n \n5 December 2022
\n \n \n \nA \u00a32.48m gift from XTX Markets has enabled the endowment of a new DPhil scholarship at Oxford, in memory of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, paving the way for the next generation of female Fields Medallists.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n21 October 2022
\n \n \n \nFour researchers from across the University of Oxford, including two from the Department of Materials and the Department of Engineering Science, have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes \u2013 the largest number awarded to researchers of any single UK university.
\n \n\n \n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nMPLS DPhil candidates Liliane Momeni and Sheheryar Zaidi have taken up prestigious Google PhD Fellowships, each worth $60,000, after been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants last year.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe prize recognises outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics and Professor Davis is awarded the prize for his innovative applications of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy to complex quantum states of matter.
\n \n\n \n \n6 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA team of researchers from the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) in China, the University of Oxford\u2019s only engineering and physical sciences research institute outside of the UK, has won first place in the regional finals of the \u2018Maker in China\u2019 Jiangsu SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n6 October 2022
\n \n \n \nSix education initiatives from across the University were recognised with prizes at the 2022 Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Education Awards, which took place at Worcester College on 29 September, including the University-wide Opportunity Oxford programme.
\n \n\n \n \n22 September 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor David Deutsch has today been named as one of four internationally pioneering physicists to receive the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his work on quantum information, while Professor James Maynard has received one of six New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes.
\n \n\n \n \n22 September 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessors Niki Trigoni and David Hills are among 72 leading figures in engineering and technology to be elected as Fellows of The Royal Academy of Engineering this week.
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