Ersilia Leonardis, who succesfully defended her PhD in the CFSA, supervised by Sandra Chapman, has been awarded the Vincenzo Ferraro Thesis Prize for her PhD work. The prize was awarded following the careful evaluation of a qualified and esteemed commission. It is in honor of Prof Vincenzo Ferraro, an eminent Italian Astrophysicist who discovered the “Ferraro-Rosenbluth” sheath amongst many other discoveries. The prize supports and promotes studies of magneto hydrodynamics applied to astrophysics by giving an award every year to the best MSc or PhD thesis within the area of magneto hydrodynamics of space or laboratory plasma.

Caroline Shenton Taylor who was a physics undergraduate has won the UK final of the Fame Lab competition and now will be involved in the international final at the Times Cheltenham science festival. Caroline was one of our undergraduates and did her PhD on Compton scattering under Jon Duffy.

The Physics department is delighted to announce the renewal of our Athena SWAN Silver Award for promoting good working practices and gender equality in Physics.

A couple of 3rd year students were good ambassadors for the physics department as they won the recent nPower Energy Challenge competition...

Gareth Alexander has been awarded the Young Scientist Award of the British Liquid Crystal Society as a result of his work on computer simulation with a focus on Blue Phases...

The BRSG and NMRDG Prize is an annual award for "Excellent Contribution to Magnetic Resonance by a researcher within 7 years of having taken up an independent position"...

Professor Geetha Balakrishnan and her collaborators have recently been awarded funding from EPSRC for three years, for the study of Topological Insulators.

Professor Sandra Chapman has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society James Dungey Lectureship for 2014.

The University has received investment from EPSRC to create four Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) designed to nurture the brightest PhD students. The four centres focus on the areas of real-world mathematics, molecular analysis, cities and the science of diamonds.

Simon Pocock and Mohammad Che Rozenan were amongst the 2012-2013 recipients of the Giving to Warwick Prizes, for the Excellent 2nd Year Academic Performance category. Giving to Warwick Prizes are available thanks to the generous donations from Warwick's alumni and friends.