President’s Awards for Excellence in Research

The President’s Awards for Excellence are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in Culture and Community, Education, Research, Societal Engagement or Sustainability.

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Research recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research, research support, as part of a research team, and in research innovation and external collaboration.

President’s Award for Excellence in Impact

For Excellence in Impact, which encompasses Policy, Enterprise, Engagement or Translation impact, aims to celebrate individuals or Teams whose research endeavours transcend academic boundaries, creating tangible, positive changes in society and the environment while exemplifying Imperial’s values in action.

Medal winner: Azalea Raad, Department of Computing

Award winner: Steven Niederer, National Heart and Lung Institute

President’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher

To celebrate the academic excellence and development of Imperial’s early stage researchers.

Medal winner: Richard Jan van Arkel, Mechanical Engineering

Award winner:

  • Nicola Gasparini, Chemistry
  • Pete Lally, Bioengineering
  • Heather Au, Chemical Engineering

President’s Award for Outstanding Research Team

To recognise outstanding research that delivers impact, a team’s international standing and their beneficial contribution to Imperial.

Medal winner:  Transmission and Reflection UltraSound Tomography (TRUST) research team, led by Oscar Calderon Agudo, Earth Science & Engineering, Bioengineering

Award winner: The RLA Lab, led by Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro, Bioengineering

Lynne Cox President’s Award for Excellence in Research Support

To recognise the contribution of Research Support staff at Imperial, including the beneficial effects their support has given to Imperial research and the innovative approaches/good practice they bring to a project.

Medal winner: Imperial Clinical Academic Training Office (CATO) team, led by Jeremy Levy, Faculty of Medicine

Award winners:

  • Stuart Elliott, Chemistry
  • Jana Pierron, Sargent Centre
  • Ruth Tipples, Department of Infectious Disease

President’s Awards for Excellence in Research Environment (Ethics, Culture, Sustainability)

To celebrate individuals or groups whose initiatives and actions significantly contribute to nurturing an inclusive, collaborative research environment and promoting sustainable research practices within the institution.

Award winners:

  • Isabella von Holstein, Department of Computing
  • David Erritzoe, Department of Brain Sciences

You can read more about the awards in our news story