Physics Department Awards and Prizes since April 2012

National recognitionProfessor Joanna Haigh SPAT 2013 FRS

Professor Joanna Haigh SPAT 2013 CBE New Year’s Honours list

Professor Sir John Pendry CMTH 2013 Isaac Newton Medal of the IoP

Professor Donal Bradley EXSS 2013 Founders Prize of Polymer Physics Group - IoP

Professor Lyndon Rees Evans HEPH 2013 Glazebrook Medal and Prize - IoP

Professor Steve Cowley PLAS 2012 Glazebrook Medal - IoP

Professor Ed Hinds QOLS 2013 Faraday Medal and Prize - IoPProfessor Paul French PHOT 2013 Joule Medal and Prize - IoPEmeritus Professor Tom Kibble THEO 2013 Honorary Fellow Status - IoP

Emeritus Professor Tom Kibble THEO 2012 Royal Medal – Royal Society

Professor Roy Taylor PHOT 2012 Rumford Medal – Royal Society

Professor Jenny Nelson EXSS 2012 Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Prize – Royal Society

Professor David Southwood SPAT 2012 Elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society

Professor Joanna Haigh SPAT 2012 Elected President of the Royal Meteorological Society

Professor Donal Bradley EXSS 2013 Elected Fellow of FIET

International Recognition

Professor Tejinder Virdee HEPH 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize

Professor Tejinder Virdee HEPH 2013 EPS High Energy Physics Prize

Dr Michel Della Negra HEPH 2013 EPS High Energy Physics Prize

Professor Sir John Pendry CMTH 2013 E-MRS Quinquennial Anniversary Award

Professor Sir John Pendry CMTH 2012 2013 James C McGroddy Prize

Dr Richard Bantges SPAT 2013 NASA Group Achievement Award for work on the CLARREO

Dr Helen Brindley SPAT 2013 NASA Group Achievement Award for work on the CLARREO

Professor John Harries SPAT 2013 NASA Group Achievement Award for work on the CLARREO

Professor David Wark HEPH 2013 Le Prix La Recherche Prize

Dr Morgan Wascko HEPH 2013 Le Prix La Recherche Prize

Dr Yoshi Uchida HEPH 2013 Le Prix La Recherche Prize

Professor David Southwood SPAT 2013 Honorary Doctorate – University of BernDr Kaisey Mandel ASTR 2012 1st place winner – Savage Award

FellowshipsDr David Jennings QOLS 2013 Royal Society URF Dr Francisco Suzuki Vidal PLAS 2013 Royal Society URFDr Roberto Trotta ASTR 2013 STFC Public Engagement FellowshipProfessor Andrew Jaffe ASTR 2013 Leverhulme Research FellowshipProfessor Stephen Warren ASTR 2013 Leverhulme Research FellowshipDr Diego Alonso Alvarez EXSS 2013 Marie Curie IEFDr Christos Kamperidis PLAS 2013 Marie Curie IEFDr Rob Nyman QOLS 2012 EPSRC Early Career FellowshipDr Sergio Coda PHOT 2012 EPSRC Doctoral Prize StudentshipMr Anthony Ashmore THEO 2012 EPSRC Prize StudentshipMr Jonathan Wood PLAS 2012 EPSRC Prize StudentshipDr Avi Braun EXSS 2013 Imperial JRFDr Chris Chen SPAT 2013 Imperial JRFDr Ed Kelleher PHOT 2013 Royal Academy of Engineering FellowshipDr Rongkuo Zhao EXSS 2012 1851 Research FellowshipDr Nokuthula Dube EXSS 2012 Daphne Jackson FellowshipDr Robert Mahen PHOT 2013 Sir Henry Wellcome FellowshipDr Arnaud Czaja SPAT 2013 Bjerknes Visiting Fellow AwardDr Arnaud Czaja SPAT 2013 Fellowship from the Japan Society,

Hokkaido University

Internal AwardsProfessor Sir John Pendry CMTH 2012 Rectors Medal for Excellence in Research

SupervisionProfessor Sir John Pendry CMTH 2013 Rectors Medal for Excellence in Research

SupervisionProfessor Adrian Sutton CMTH 2012 Rectors MedalProfessor Steve Schwartz SPAT 2012 Rectors AwardProfessor Adrian Sutton CMTH 2013 Rectors Award for Outstanding Innovation in

TeachingProfessor Kim Christensen CMTH 2012 Rectors and FoNS Award for Excellence in

TeachingDr Michael Coppins PLAS 2012 Rectors and FoNS Award for Excellence in

TeachingDr Toby Wiseman THEO 2012 Rectors and FoNS Award for Excellence in

TeachingProfessor Lesley Cohen EXSS 2013 Julia Higgins MedalProfessor Tim Horbury SPAT 2013 FoNS Award for Excellence in TeachingProfessor Martin McCall PHOT 2013 FoNS Award for Excellence in TeachingDr Mike Tarbutt QOLS 2013 FoNS Award for Excellence in TeachingDr Vijay Tymms Teaching 2013 FoNS Award for Excellence in Teaching

Internal Awards continuedMr Michel Buck THEO 2013 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingMr Ben Chapman PHOT 2013 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingMr Philip de Grouchy PLAS 2012 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingDr Adam Dobbs HEPH 2013 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingDr Jonathan Eastwood SPAT 2012 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingMs Mery Fajardo Teaching 2013 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingDr Hannes Guhl CMTH 2013 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingMs Zoe Hatherell HEPH 2012 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingMr Simon Hutchinson QOLS 2012 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingDr Stephane Kena-Cohen EXSS 2012 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in TeachingMr Pichaya Pattanasattayavong

EXSS 2013

Miss Stephanie Smallwood

Teaching 2012 FoNS Award for Support of Excellence in Teaching

PG Awards (part 1)Mr David Beesley CDT 2012 EPSRC ICT Pioneers Competition

Ms Charlotte Strege ASTR 2012 Santander Mobility Award

Ms Charlotte Strege ASTR 2012 Dr Pliny A and Margaret H Pice Prize – CCAPP

Ms Charlotte Strege ASTR 2012 Stefano Franscini Centre Prize – DarkAttack 2012

Mr Ben Chapman PHOT 2013 Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Maker’ Postgraduate Award

Mr Alex Thompson PHOT 2012 Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Maker’ Postgraduate Award

Mr William Neal PLAS/ISP 2012 Anne Thorne Thesis PrizeDr Charlotte Palmer PLAS 2013 Culham Thesis Prize

Mr Johannes Noller THEO 2012 Jointly won the Winton PhD Prize

Mr Rak-Kyeong Seong THEO 2012 Jointly won the Winton PhD Prize

Mr Martin Archer SPAT 2013 Outstanding Student Paper Award – American Geophysical Union

Mr Yu Luo CMTH 2012 Blackett Laboratory Industry Club Thesis Prize

Ms Lingling Chen PHOT 2012 1st Prize in PhD Student Awards

Mr David Thomas JamesEXSS 2012 Solid State Physics Thesis Prize

Dr Daniel Hollington HEPH 2012 Best Thesis Prize – Astroparticle Physics Group of the IoP

PG Awards (part 2)Miss Zara Abdelrahman QOLS 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – PosterMr Michel Buck THEO 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – PosterMr Joshua Chadney SPAT 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – PosterMr Leo Hughes THEO 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – PosterMr Anthony Lim CMTH 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – PosterMr Yen Hung Lin EXSS 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – PosterMiss Giuliana Di Martino PHOT 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – TalkMr Lionel Fafchamps CMTH 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – TalkMr Joe Fallon CMTH 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – TalkMiss Aisha Kaushik QOLS 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – TalkMr Alex Perevedentsev EXSS 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – TalkMr Peter Sinclair HEPH 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – TalkMr Ben Chapman PHOT 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – Talk (runner up)Mr Andrew Gilbert HEPH 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – Talk (runner up)Mr Matthew Kenzie HEPH 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – Talk (runner up)Mr Gabriele Messori SPAT 2013 PGR Symposium Winner – Talk (runner up)