Professor Blake Sherwin awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
9 December 2025
Blake Sherwin, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics in DAMTP, is one of eight University of Cambridge researchers sharing a total of €17 million in the European Research Council's (ERC) Consolidator Grants 2025 awards. The grants support mid-career researchers to carry out cutting-edge research projects lasting up to five years.
Blake Sherwin's grant funded project will use the cosmic microwave background, the universe’s oldest light, as a 'backlight' to map where cosmic matter lies and how it moves. This will provide new insights into how the universe began and enable the research team to test ideas about how cosmic structure grew.
Professor Raymond Goldstein FRS awarded honorary doctorate by KU Leuven
25 November 2025
Ray Goldstein, Alan Turing Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, is one of six exceptional individuals who have been awarded honorary doctorates by KU Leuven.
The honorary doctorate will be presented in February 2026, and recognises his work as a bridge builder between different scientific disciplines, in which the perspective of physics gives new impetus to the study of biological processes.
Cambridge Image Analysis group shortlisted for 2025 Into Change Award
11 November 2025
The Cambridge Image Analysis group, based in DAMTP, has been shortlisted as one of 7 finalists for the new Into Change Award launched by Denmark's Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
The Into Change Award honours outstanding European research groups whose work drives scientific breakthroughs and strengthens society.
Dr Miles Cranmer awarded Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship
6 November 2025
Miles Cranmer, Assistant Professor of Data Intensive Science in DAMTP and the IoA, has been announced as a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.
He is one of 28 researchers worldwide who are collectively being awarded more than $18 million to advance AI’s potential for the benefit of humanity.
Dr Lorenzo Gavassino awarded APS 2026 George E Valley Jr Prize
6 November 2025
Dr Lorenzo Gavassino (DAMTP) has been awarded the American Physical Society's 2026 George E. Valley Jr. Prize, for his contributions to the field of relativistic fluid dynamics.
The prize is awarded each year to an early-career individual for an outstanding scientific contribution to physics that is deemed to have significant potential for a dramatic impact on the field.
Three Faculty researchers invited as speakers at International Congress of Mathematicians 2026
30 September 2025
Three Cambridge mathematicians, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP), Richard Samworth (Professor of Statistical Science, DPMMS) and Julian Sahasrabudhe (Professor of Combinatorics, DPMMS), have been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2026.
The ICM is held every four years and represents the largest global gathering of mathematicians across all subjects, reflecting the vast diversity of today’s mathematics. The ICM sees the award of some of the most important prizes in mathematics, and the selection of invited speakers reflects outstanding achievements in their fields.
Professor Gary Gibbons FRS awarded 2025 Dirac Medal
11 August 2025
Professor Gary Gibbons FRS (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) has been awarded the 2025 Dirac Medal by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. The prestigious award has been given for work that has redefined our understanding of gravity, alongside co-awardees Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Roy Kerr (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), and Robert Wald (University of Chicago).
The Dirac Medal recognises their landmark contributions which have significantly shaped the study of general relativity across many generations. Their work collectively has laid the conceptual and technical foundations of our understanding of gravity, at both the classical and quantum levels.
Professor Perla Sousi wins LMS Whitehead Prize
21 July 2025
Professor Perla Sousi (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) has been awarded a 2025 Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. The prize recognises her groundbreaking and innovative contributions to probability theory, particularly the study of mixing and cutoff phenomena for Markov chains, which helped to revitalize this field of study, and her work leading the development of the potential theory of branching random walks on d-dimensional lattices, where her insights will have a lasting impact on the field.
Professor Jason Miller elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
21 May 2025
Professor Jason Miller (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the UK's national academy of sciences. The election recognises his outstanding work in probability theory.
Professor Richard Samworth FRS awarded RSS Guy Medal Silver
9 April 2025
Professor Richard Samworth FRS (DPMMS) has been awarded the 2025 Guy Medal Silver by the Royal Statistical Society. The award recognises his outstanding contributions to the development of methodology and theory for shape-constrained inference, random ensemble classification, data-perturbation techniques, and changepoint estimation, and his exceptional support for other members of the profession.