Developing custom apparatus to determine battery electrolyte sweet spots
There are only a few surface force balances in the world, and Susan Perkin’s group has one of them. ‘You can’t go and buy one,’ explains Perkin. Staff in the mechanical…
Blavatnik Awards
Trinity Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious Research Award
Susan Perkin, a professor of physical chemistry and fellow of Trinity College at Oxford University, has won the 2023 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom. The award,…
Pandemic preparedness: five minutes with . . . Katie Doores
Katie Doores, winner of the 2023 UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists and its accompanying £100 000 in unrestricted funds, discusses her research on viruses that pass from animals to humans—and…
Dark energy ‘chameleon trap’ wins £100,000 prize for Nottingham scientist
Ingeniously simple lab experiment led by Prof Clare Burrage recognised by Blavatnik awards. Dark energy is the enigma at the heart of modern physics: the universe is supposed to be…
Nine UK-based Scientists Receive the Esteemed Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK
18 January 2023 — London, UK: Today, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have announced the recipients of the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom.…
Susan Perkin Honoured in Annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry Susan Perkn has been named Award Laureate in the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. The award comes in recognition of her…
Two UCL academics named Blavatnik Award finalists for emerging scientific talent
Dr Andrew Saxe (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL) and Professor Jade Alglave (UCL Computer Science) are among nine finalists in the 2023 Blavatnik Awards…
Nottingham Professor joins all female winners of prestigious young scientist award
A Nottingham Professor has been recognised for her research into dark energy in the Universe with a young scientist award from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy…
Dr Katie Doores receives esteemed Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists
Today, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced the recipients of the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom. Now in its…
Alan Alda and Irina Petrushina Honored by New York Academy of Sciences at Annual Gala
Alda was given the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Communicating Science, while Petrushina, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was one of nine honorees in the Physical Sciences…
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