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Science, Engineering and Medicine Prizes and Fellowships 2021-2022

2022

  • Professor Dieter Wolke from the Department of Psychology has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Helsinki. He received the institution’s highest award — the doctor honoris causa — from Helsinki’s Faculty of Medicine, in recognition of his distinguished and impactful career in Psychology. Read more...

  • Professor Sai Gu, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (China), has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, recognising his outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession. Read more...
  • Professor Peter Sadler from the Department of Chemistry has been announced as the 2022 winner of the Royal Society’s Davy Medal. The award recognises his work in using inorganic metals in medicine, pioneering the research field of medicinal inorganic chemistry. Read more...

  • Chemists at the University of Warwick have scored a hat-trick for their subject as the Royal Society of Chemistry announce the winners of their prestigious prizes. Research at the University of Warwick has been recognised with two Horizon Prizes, which celebrate the most exciting, contemporary chemical science at the cutting edge of research and innovation, while a Warwick chemist is the recipient of a Research and Innovation Prize, which celebrate brilliant individuals across industry and academia. Read more...

2021

  • Dr Lazaros Andronis from Warwick Medical School has been awarded an NIHR Advanced Fellowship for a project entitled "Estimating the Value of Children's Time for Use in Economic Evaluation." Dr Andronis will bring together and lead a multidisciplinary team of collaborators to explore how to identify the value that children and young persons place on their time, how this varies and how best to include it in health economic evaluations. Read more...

  • Dr Ed Brambley from Warwick Mathematics Insitute has been awarded a UKRI Fellowship for his project entitled "Applied Mathematical Modelling of Industrial Metal Formings." The aim of his Fellowship is to investigate techniques for mathematical modelling in continuum solid mechanics and plasticity, the outcome of which could be used to provide predictive theoretical models for industrial metal forming. Read more...
  • A research project that sheds light on the economic impacts of climate change that was co-authored by Professor Sandra Chapman from the Department of Physics has been awarded a 2021 Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize in the Climate Change category. The study, published in October 2020, showed that current economic forecasting models fail to account for unpredictable variations in global temperatures, rather than the more predictable rising temperatures themselves. Read more...

  • Professor Layi Alatise and Dr Jose Ortiz Gonzalez from the School of Engineering have been awarded the "Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics" by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. The paper assesses the performance and reliability of the latest generation Medium Voltage (between 600V and 900V) Silicon and Silicon Carbide Power Transistors, and is based on research funded by the Royal Society Industry Fellowship scheme (held by Professor Alatise) and EPSRC/Industrial funding. Read more...

  • Professor Peter Scott from the Department of Chemistry is undertaking a Royal Society Industry Fellowship entitled "Commercial Realisation of the Polyolefin-Polar Block Copolymer Concept." Professor Scott and his team are developing a new type of molecule which enables polyolefins to mix with other materials, improving the recyclability and use of plastics. Read more...

  • Dr Long Tran-Thanh from the Department of Computer Science has been awarded funding to undertake Google’s AI for Social Good programme. The programme focuses on using AI to address some of the world’s biggest societal challenges. Dr Tran-Thanh’s project, entitled "Incentive Engineering and Truthful Mechanisms for Grassland Quality and Local Market Price Estimation in Africa" will address the problem of holistic grazing and pasture management in East Africa. Read more...

  • Dr Long Tran-Thanh from the Department of Computer Science has received an AIJ Prominent Paper Award for his paper entitled "Efficient crowdsourcing of unknown experts using bounded multi-armed bandits" published in 2014 in Artificial Intelligence (AIJ). The AIJ Prominent Paper Award recognises outstanding papers published in the journal in the last seven years that are exceptional in their significance and impact. Read more...

  • Dr Daniel Martin-Yerga from the Department of Chemistry has been awarded an EU Marie Curie Fellowship which will aim to uncover how and when metal dendrites are formed in lithium-ion batteries, and how formation can be mitigated. This will have implications for electric vehicles that use lithium-ion batteries. Storing lithium directly as metal, without the need for a graphite host, would increase the energy density of these devices. His project will enable the rational design of battery materials to be used in a proof-of-concept dendrite-free battery. Read more...

  • Professor Steve Dixon from the Department of Physics has received a Royal Society Industry Fellowship for his project entitled "Unlocking the Potential of Eddy Current Arrays." Professor Dixon and his team are developing a method called "eddy current testing" to detect and size surface cracks in the metal that are less than one-quarter of a millimetre long. The new eddy current technology will help to ensure continued safe operation of new designs of more powerful and efficient jet engines. Read more...
  • Dr Tom Blake from the Department of Physics has received a Royal Society Research Fellowship to lead a programme of measurements at the Large Hadron Collider to test the Standard Model of particle physics using rare b-hadron decays. By studying rare decays of these b-hadrons, it's possible to make precise tests of the Standard Model. If there are new particles or forces to be discovered, they should be detected in the way Standard Model particles are produced or decay. Read more...

  • Dr Nicole Robb from Warwick Medical School will undertake a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellowship to study how viruses replicate, which will help develop new methods for viral detection and diagnosis. She will use a combination of traditional virology methods, advanced fluorescence microscopy and biophysical single-molecule techniques to study this process. Advancing understanding of how viruses replicate will provide new targets for anti-viral drugs. Read more...

  • Professor David Loeffler from Warwick Mathematics Institute has been awarded a European Research Council grant for a project in which he will explore and attempt to solve one of the most famous open problems in mathematics, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. This is a question about the solutions to a certain kind of equation, defining a so-called "elliptic curve." This is an open problem in the field of number theory and is widely recognised as one of the most challenging mathematical problems. Read more...

  • Dr Adriano Lameira from the Department of Psychology has received a UKRI Fellowship for his project "The Ape and the First Word: Understanding the Origins and Evolution of the First Linguistic Structures in Humans through Comparative Research." He will examine syllable-like combinations of orangutans as living models for the first proto-linguistic structures to have emerged in humans. By doing so he will be able to help uncover the forces that catalysed language onset. Read more...
  • Dr Oscar Rivero Salgado from the Department of Physics has been awarded a Newton International Fellowship for his project entitled "Euler Systems and Congruences Among Modular Forms." He will seek to achieve a better understanding of the relations between different Euler systems and to derive some applications to problems like the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, but also to other intriguing questions like the celebrated Gross-Stark conjectures or the Iwasawa main conjecture. Read more...
  • Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay from the Department of Physics has received a Leverhulme Fellowship to dissect planetesimal accretion by white dwarf stars. Along with Dr Tim Cunningham from the Department of Physics, he will use three-dimensional numerical simulations of the white dwarf surface to dissect frequent planetesimal accretion events. Read more...
  • Dr David Fengwei Xie from WMG has received an EPSRC Fellowship for his project "Breaking Frontiers for Advanced Engineering of Bespoke, Functional Biopolymer Composite Materials." He will focus on chemical modification and the smart design of materials formulation and engineering process to develop 3D-printable biopolymer composite materials. This will support the creation and delivery of revolutionary materials solutions for both environmental sustainability and human health. Read more...
  • Professor Matthew Gibson from the Department of Chemistry and Warwick Medical School has been awarded the 2021 McBain Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry. Read more...
  • Professor Stephen RoyleLink opens in a new window from Warwick Medical School has been awarded the 2021 Hooke Medal for Cell Biology by the British Society for Cell Biology. Read more...
  • Professor Graham Cormode from the Department of Computer Science has been recognised for his contribution to his discipline by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), by being named a Fellow. Professor Cormode's work on data streams and sketching has been widely implemented in many high tech companies such as Google, Netflix and Twitter. Read more...

  • Professor Peter Sadler from the Department of Chemistry Department has been awarded a Newton International Fellowship in collaboration with Dr Liu Jiangping from China's Sun Yat-Sen University. The Fellowship will enable Dr Jiangping to move to Warwick to work with Peter on a project that aims to generate non-toxic anticancer prodrugs containing coupled precious metals ruthenium and rhenium for treating lung cancer. The new prodrugs can be activated in tumours using directed light.