SEM Faculty Prize Winners
Each year, the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine at the University of Warwick funds a prize for the best PhD/EngD thesis, and the best output by a Post Doctoral Researcher.
Each department nominates a winner for each prize out of the applications received after a judging process as determined by the Faculty.
For more details about the prizes, the guidelines, and the process, please email SEMAdmin at warwick dot ac dot uk
Post Doctoral Prize Winners (2024)
Chemistry
Dr Anjana Wijesekara, Highly Air Stable Tin Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics using a Bismuth Capped Copper Top Electrode
Computer Science
Dr Judith Lutton, Formation and closure of macropinocytic cups in Dictyostelium
Dr Sima Mehri, Poly-Exp Bounds in Tandem Queues
Engineering
Dr Abdalghani Daaoub, Contacting individual graphene nanoribbons using carbon nanotube electrodes
Mathematics
Kawa Manmi, Oscillation of an ultrasonically driven gas bubble in an asymmetric confined domain
Martin Winter, Rigidity, Tensegrity and Reconstruction of Polytopes under Metric Constraints
Physics
Dr Fernando Abudinen, Search for D∗(2007)0→μ+μ− in B−→π−μ+μ− decays
Psychology
Dr Zhu Jian-Qiao, The Autocorrelated Bayesian Sampler: A rational process for probability judgments, estimates, confidence intervals, choices, confidence judgments, and response times
School of Life Sciences
Dr Emily Lane-Hill, Tau in cerebrospinal fluid induces neuronal hyperexcitability and alters hippocampal theta oscillations
Dr Tailise da Souza, Membrane Targeted Azobenzene Drives Optical Modulation of Bacterial Membrane Potential
Statistics
Dr Lionel Riou-Durand, Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian
Monte Carlo
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Dr Zhiming Yan, Priority Lithium Recovery from Spent Li-ion Batteries via Carbothermal Reduction with Water Leaching
Thesis Prize Winners (2024)
Chemistry
Dr Fabienne Bachtiger, Understanding Ice Recrystallisation Inhibitors via Molecular Dynamics Simulations
James John Gardner, Simulation of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics at metal surfaces
Engineering
Dr Sophie Pain, Enhancing electronic materials by chemical treatments and nanoscale dielectrics
Mathematics
Dr Joshua Daniels-Holgate, Fine Analysis of Mean Curvature Flow through Singularities
Simon Gabriel, Critical scaling limits and singular SPDEs
Jingbang Liu, Fluctuating Hydrodynamics of Nanoscale Thin Films
Physics
Dr Eva-Maria Ahrer, Low Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres using Ground-based and Space Telescopes
Psychology
Aleksandra Krogulska, PhD, Does It Ever Make Sense to Stop Learning Earlier? Factors Determining Learning Termination and its Consequences
School of Life Sciences
Dr Chris L B Graham, Uncovering the formation of the Gram-negative bacterial cell envelope, and peptidoglycan synthesis
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Dr Jingkun Chen, Deep Learning-based Medical Image Segmentation with Limited Annotation
Warwick Medical School
Dr Chelsea May Brown, Investigating membrane proteins and the inner membrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dr Indra Bahadur Napit, Trial of Autologous Blood products to promote ulcer healing in LEprosy (TABLE)