17 May 2022
\n \n \n \nThe House of Lords has appointed Professor Kathy Willis as a new non-party-political peer, after being recommended by the independent House of Lords Commission. She joins the crossbenches, comprising independent peers who provide deep, wide-ranging expertise to the House.
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\n \n \n \nIn all, eight scientists from the University of Oxford have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. All but one are from departments in MPLS Division.
\n \n\n \n \n4 May 2022
\n \n \n \nFour early-career researchers have been recognised by Forbes' 2022 list, which is intended to illustrate the power that young entrepreneurs and leaders have to transform business and society.
\n \n\n \n \n27 April 2022
\n \n \n \nThis award has been created as a legacy to Dr Jamie Ferguson of Oxford University Innovation, who tragically died in August 2020 after succumbing to COVID-19.
\n \n\n \n \n24 March 2022
\n \n \n \n\u2018Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production\u2019 (STEP) aims to deliver a prototype fusion reactor with the potential to provide unlimited clean energy.
\n \n\n \n \n8 March 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Desi Ivanova, a DPhil student at the Department of Statistics, who was awarded Bronze at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her mathematical research, walking away with a \u00a3750 prize. Desi presented her winning research to dozens of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of the poster competition STEM for BRITAIN, on Monday 7th March 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Chris Ballentine, Professor Tamsin Mather and Professor Gideon Henderson join 13 other geochemists receiving the fellowship this year from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. The award was established in 1996 to honour outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field.
\n \n\n \n \n19 January 2022
\n \n \n \nAssociate Professor of Palaeobiology, Erin Saupe, is one of 9 UK recipients of the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, in recognition of her work using the fossil record to understand how species respond to environmental changes over both long and short timescales.
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\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics, who has been appointed CBE in the New Year Honours 2022 for services to climate change attribution, prediction and net zero.
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\n \n \n \nFor contribution to chemical engineering and the promotion of China-UK exchanges and cooperation
\n \n\n \n \n29 November 2021
\n \n \n \nSix scientists from the Department of Physics have been recognised by the Institute of Physics in this year\u2019s IOP awards along with a seventh physicist from Oxford\u2019s Department of Education. Two academics have also be made Honorary Fellows, the highest accolade presented by the IOP.
\n \n\n \n \n18 November 2021
\n \n \n \nQuantum Dice's founders include the Department of Physics\u2019 Ramy Aboushelbaya and Marko Mayr; the company is developing the world\u2019s first compact source-device independent quantum random number generator set to play a key role in the cybersecurity market.
\n \n\n \n \n16 November 2021
\n \n \n \nA carbon capture company established less than a year ago by two Oxford students has been announced as one of 23 winners of the XPRIZE student competition.
\n \n\n \n \n18 October 2021
\n \n \n \nSix young academics from across the University of Oxford have today been given Philip Leverhulme prizes \u2013 the largest number awarded to researchers of any university.
\n \n\n \n \n30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year. 23 of the fellows come from MPLS departments.
\n \n\n \n \n29 September 2021
\n \n \n \nRobotics researchers from the Oxford Robotics Institute in the Department of Engineering Science have contributed to the winning team, Team CERBERUS, at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge - coming away with the top prize of $2m.
\n \n\n \n \n8 September 2021
\n \n \n \nFive of the new Fellows are from MPLS Division. The Fellowships have been created by UKRI to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
\n \n\n \n \n24 August 2021
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