For his ground breaking research in the field of Warm Dense Matter Professor Michael Bonitz from the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics of Kiel University (CAU) receives the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research 2021. With this award the American Physical Society (APS) every year recognizes […]
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Professor Jaemin Lee (School of Law) is an internationally-recognized legal scholar specializing in the field of international law. He is an active member of international bodies such as the UNCITRAL Working Groups and the Panel of Experts under the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. He is also Vice […]
Amyris Innovation BIG Impact Award is the new award that aims to distinguish innovative projects in the field of Biotechnology. This competition, unique in the Portuguese biotechnology ecosystem, is an initiative of the ALUMNI Association and the Faculty of Biotechnology of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, in partnership with Amyris […]
Professor Jay Hinton has received a second prestigious Wellcome Investigator Award to further his world-leading research on ‘killer’ African Salmonella. Bloodstream infections caused by variants of two types of Salmonella (Typhimurium and Enteritidis) cause around 50,000 deaths each year in sub-Saharan Africa. This endemic disease has recently become a major public health concern. Professor […]
College of Health and Life Sciences opens nominations for Christopher J Hewitt Prize Memorial prize launched to commemorate the late pro-vice chancellor and executive dean Prize will go to student demonstrating exemplary citizenship in the University Aston University’s College of Health and Life Sciences has opened nominations for the inaugural Christopher J […]
Four University of Stirling Public Relations students have been recognised as among the best in Europe after being nominated for a top international award. Kars van Weeren, Iris Lopez Wyld, Jeni Harvey and Michael Cassar, have all been shortlisted by the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) in its annual […]
This year, four of a total of fifteen Pfizer Research Prizes have been awarded to physicians from the University of Bern and the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern. The award-winning work deals with leukemia, cardiac arrhythmias and the fever threshold in children and adolescents with cancer. The Pfizer Research Prize is […]
Four years ago, Dora Palfi was reunited with her Romanian friend Beatrice Ionascu at KTH, whom she had got to know when they were both undergraduates in Abu Dhabi. That became the launch pad for their start-up company Imagilabs, whose business concept is to help girls shape their future by […]
Linz mechatronics engineer Bernhard Jakoby is now an “IEEE Fellow.” Jakoby’s research at Johannes Kepler University Linz in the field of mechatronics, specifically in the sensing of liquids, and in other areas, was honored. His work is particularly essential in support of industrial and medical applications. The IEEE Fellow degree […]
The TU/e Department of Applied Physics has won the Diversity Prize 2020 offered by the Netherlands Physical Society (NNV). Thus, in the eyes of the association, the department is the physics institution most successfully applying an open diversity policy. “Not enough women candidates? In physics that is bullshit,” says Dean […]