PhD Prizes & Awards

Information about PhD prizes and student recipients.

PhD Thesis Prize

The School awards an annual prize to postgraduate research students who have produced the best PhD theses in each of the research areas. The prizes come with a cash award of £1000 (split if multiple recipients).

2023 School PhD Thesis Prize recipients

 Higgs Prize (for Theoretical Physics) 
  • Ivan Lobaskin (Condensed Matter and Complex Systems)
 Institute for Astronomy
  • Ryan Begley
  • Massi Hamadouche
 Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics 
  • Jordan Marsh (Nuclear Physics)
  • Matteo Sergola (Particle Physics Theory)

Winton Award 

The Winton Award is for postgraduate research students who have produced the best PhD theses in the fields of Astronomy or Particle and Nuclear Physics. This comes with a cash award of £1000 for each of the two research areas.

We are pleased to announce that the following PhD students have received a Winton Award:

2022 Winton Award recipients

 Astronomy 
  • Minas Karamanis                                      
 Particle and Nuclear Physics 
  • Emmet Byrne
  • Sara Mitchell

2021 Winton Award recipients

 Astronomy 
  • Ellen Qianjun Hang                                  
  • Ben Moews
 Particle and Nuclear Physics 
  • Ben Maybee

2020 Winton Award recipients

 Astronomy 
  • Award postponed to following year 
 Particle and Nuclear Physics 
  • Emmy Gabriel
  • Oscar Hall
  • Calum Milloy

2019 Winton Award recipients

 Astronomy 
  • Adam Carnall
  • Clemence Fontanive                                
 Particle and Nuclear Physics 
  • Joel Mabillard
  • Isobel Nicholson
  • Andreas Sogaard

2018 Winton Award recipients

 Astronomy 
  • Johanna Vos
 Particle and Nuclear Physics 
  • Maria Francesca Marzioni