2018

• Dr Suzanne Aussems from the Department of Psychology has been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled "The Role of Gesture in Language Development and Evolution." Her research focused on the role of iconic gestures - gesticulations that accompany speech and illustrate what is being said. She will collect data from an experiment with three-year-old children to help better understand how seeing iconic gestures facilitates word learning. Read more...
• Dr Matt Jenner from the Department of Chemistry has received a BBSRC Future Leader Fellowship for a project entitled "Mapping Protein-Protein Interactions in Polyketide Synthases by Carbene Footprinting." His research focuses on the application of mass spectrometry to solve complex biological problems. Read more...
• Dr Gihan Mudalige from the Department of Computer Science has received a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Rolls-Royce for a project entitled "Future-ready Massively-Parallel CFD Simulations for the Exascale." His research focuses on developing future-ready massively-parallel CFD simulations for exascale HPC systems. Read more...
• Dr Marco Schlichting from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project entitled "Higher K-Theory of Forms." His research focuses on homotopical methods in algebraic geometry. Read more...
• Dr Fabrizio Alberti from the School of Life Sciences has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project entitled "Engineering a Yeast Cell Factory for Production of Valuable Meroterpenoids." His research focuses on the characterisation of bioactive natural products made by microorganisms. Read more...
• Dr Jeremy Sloan from the Department of Physics has received an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship for his project entitled "Crystallography and Functional Evolution of Atomically Thin Confined Nanowires." His research will focus on spatial and time resolved crystallography, structural refinement and functional evolution of one to four atom thick 1D 'extreme nanowires' formed inside single walled carbon nanotubes. Read more...
• Dr Alice Mason from the Department of Psychology has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project entitled "From Encoding to Retrieval: How Memory Drives Risky Choice." Her research focuses on how reward signals in the environment influence cognitive processes such as learning, memory and decision-making. Read more...
• Dr Susana Gomes from Warwick Mathematics Institute has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project entitled "Parameter Estimation in Macroscopic Models for Pedestrian Dynamics." Her research interests are in applied analysis, with a focus on modelling and control of problems described by partial differential equations (PDEs) and with relevance to applications in the physical, life, and social sciences. Read more...
• Dr Tom Whale from the Department of Chemistry has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project entitled "Unpicking the Influences of Chemistry and Topography on Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation." His research focuses on the nucleation of ice and the role of ice nucleation in atmospheric science and cryobiology. Read more...
• Dr Ben Green from the Department of Physics has received a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship for a project entitled "Long-Distance Quantum Communication Devices via Engineered Defects in Diamond." He will focus on the identification and exploitation of technologically useful point defects in diamond. Read more...
• Professor Don Pollacco from the Department of Physics has received an STFC Innovation Fellowship for his project entitled "Understanding the debris population at GEO and the fate of elderly satellites." His research will involve identifying the constitution of the debris field at GEO, as well as studying the effects of radiation field on the state of elderly satellites. Read more...
• Dr Farzana Meru from the Department of Physics has been awarded a Royal Society Fellowship for a project entitled the Role of Self-Gravitating Discs in the Formation and Evolution of Giant Planets. Her research focuses on the formation and evolution of planets in protoplanetary discs. These discs are the birth environments of planets and are made up of gas and dust that swirl around the central star. Read more...
• Dr David Armstrong from the Department of Physics has received a STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow for a research project entitled "Markers Of Planet Migration In The Population Of Planetary Cores (ERF)." He will work on exoplanet detection, characterization and populations with the TESS mission data. Read more...
• Professor Mika Vesterinen from the Department of Physics has been awarded an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship for a research project entitled "Precision Measurements of Beauty Decays and The W Boson Mass At LHCb." He will use data from the LHCb experiment at CERN to understand quark flavour and electroweak symmetry breaking. He will study the latter by trying to measure the mass of the W boson. Read more...
• Professor Nikolaos Zygouras from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded an EPSRC Fellowship for a research project entitled "Structures and Universalities around the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation." Dr Zygouras’ research aims to build a novel and wide framework to explain the deep and still largely elusive structure of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation, a universal model proposed to describe fluctuations of randomly growing interfaces. Read more...
• Dr Thomas Blake from the Department of Physics has been awarded a Royal Society Fellowship for a research project entitled "Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Rare B-Hadron Decays." He works in the field of quantum mechanics and subatomic particles and his research will focus on the decay of the rare 'B meson' particle, and evidence of a new virtual particle. Read more...
• Professor Mark Achtman from Warwick Medical School has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Pettenkofer Prize for his lifetime work on evolution of bacterial pathogens and their association with humans. Read more...
• Professor Andrew McAinsh from Warwick Medical School has been awarded the British Society for Cell Biology’s (BSCB) Hooke Medal for his pioneering research on kinetochores and contributions to cell biology. Read more...
  
• Professor Xiaowei Zhao from the School of Engineering has been awarded an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship for his project entitled "Data-driven Intelligent Energy Management System for a Micro Grid." The purpose of the research is to produce new knowledge at the interface of three disciplines (control systems, data science and power systems). Read more...
• Professor Tom Marsh from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Herschel Medal for developing the Doppler Tomography technique - a method used to reveal the micro-arcsecond structure of binary star systems, delivering accurate masses for white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. Read more...
• Dr Daphne Ezer from the Department of Statistics has been awarded an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship for her project entitled "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Improving Research Productivity in the Life Science Sector." Her team will develop software to better reflect the realities of the biology laboratory, in order to be of greater use to biology researchers. Read more...
  
• Professor Nikos Zygouras from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship for his research project entitled "Structures and Universalities around the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation." His research lies in the field of probability theory and its applications to models of statistical physics (random media, statistical mechanics, stochastic PDEs). Read more...
• Professor Pat Unwin has been awarded a Charles N.Reilley Award from the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry for his outstanding research contributions in electroanalytical chemistry. Read more...
  
• Professor Julian Gardner from the School of Engineering has been awarded a Mullard Award from the Royal Society for founding and leading a successful spin-off in the physical sciences, active in environmental and air quality sensors. Read more...
• Professor Karen Vogtmann from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded the Polya Prize for her pioneering work in Geometric Group Theory, particularly the study of automorphism groups of free groups. Read more...
• Dr Filip Rindler from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize for developing solutions to fundamental problems on the border between the theory of partial differential equations, calculus of variations and geometric measure theory. Read more...
• Professor Jeremy Gray from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded the London Mathematical Society's Hirst Prize for his research and books on the history of mathematics - in particular, differential equations and geometry in and around the nineteenth century. Read more...
• Dr Andrea Mondino from Warwick Mathematics Institute has received the Bartolozzi Prize from the Unione Matematica Italiana. The award is presented every two years to Italian mathematicians who have undertaken significant mathematical research, and are under the age of 40. Read more...
• Dr Gioacchino Cannizzaro from the Department of Statistics has been awarded an EPSRC Fellowship for a research project entitled "The emergence of universal behaviour for growth models, stochastic PDEs and random operators." Read more...
• Professor Dieter Wolke from the Department of Psychology has been named as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Fellow status is awarded to APS Members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to Psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application. Read more...

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