News archive: 2024

Congratulations to Dr Stewart Gault who has received a grant to support research into the survival of bacteria at low temperatures.

Congratulations to Dr Beckmann who has received a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship.

Congratulations to Dr Wood who has received an award for her contribution to the Society of Chemical Industry.

Astronomers have created the most detailed weather report so far for two distant worlds beyond our own solar system.

Congratulations to Dr Barter who has been elected as LHCb-UK Physics Coordinator.

Congratulations to Dr Erin Goldstraw who has been awarded a Daphne Jackson fellowship.

Professor Murray Campbell’s community service has been recognised with the award of the British Empire Medal.

Congratulations to Gracie McGill who has been awarded a Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund.

Congratulations to Chancellor’s Fellows Drs Gurtej Kanwar, Sarah Rugheimer and Catriona Wimberley.

Congratulations to Susanna Richmond who has been awarded the University of Edinburgh’s Impact Enabler prize.

Discovery of planet Gliese 12 b may help unlock some aspects of our own solar system’s evolution.

Results provide a glimpse of the telescope’s power and performance.

Undergraduate Open Days 2024

Professor Victoria Martin joins the 57 names recognised as being some of the greatest thinkers, researchers and practitioners working in or with Scotland today.

Congratulations to Dr Davide Michieletto who has been awarded the British Biophysical Society Louise Jonson Early Career Award.

Congratulations to PhD student Annemiek Waajen who has been selected as a Schmidt Science Fellow.

Congratulations to Dr Sally Shaw who has been awarded the Institute of Physics High Energy Particle Physics Group Prize.

Colleagues from the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit involved in Gaia space telescope discovery, which challenges our understanding of how massive stars develop and evolve.

Congratulations to Professors Marialuisa Aliotta and Annette Ferguson who have received European Research Council Advanced grants.

Colleagues are saddened by the loss of renowned physicist Professor Peter Higgs who has died, aged 94, after a short illness.

Funding has been received to continue opportunities as part of the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) project.

Insight could be used to create more durable foldable smartphones.

Congratulations to Dr Christopher Stock who has received a research collaboration grant in this latest round of awards.

Congratulations to Somrita Ray, the School’s inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Fellow, who has been appointed in a permanent position.

Congratulations to Jordan Marsh who has won the Institute of Physics (IoP) Nuclear Physics Thesis Prize.

Study suggests how biological fluids balance motion while protecting structure.

Funding received to understand factors such as communicative need, social aspects and learning biases.