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.
Professor Richard Samworth FRS awarded 2025 David Cox Medal
9 April 2025
Professor Richard Samworth FRS (DPMMS) has been awarded the David Cox Medal for Statistics. Inaugurated in 2025, this international award recognises his outstanding contributions to methodological and theoretical statistics. In addition to stellar research contributions in important and broad areas of statistical science across the past two decades, the award recognises his mentorship of students and young researchers, and tireless service to the profession.
Dr Theo Assiotis and Dr Giuseppe Cannizzaro win 2025 Adams Prize
25 March 2025
The 2025 Adams Prize has been jointly awarded to Dr Theo Assiotis of the University of Edinburgh and Dr Giuseppe Cannizzaro of the University of Warwick for their work on the Mathematics of Statistical Mechanics. The Adams Prize is one of the oldest and most prestigious prizes in the University of Cambridge, and is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College, Cambridge, to UK-based researchers under the age of 40 doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.
Professor James Fergusson wins 2025 Pilkington Prize
27 February 2025
Professor James Fergusson (DAMTP) has been awarded a 2025 Pilkington Prize. The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually by the University of Cambridge to recognise outstanding contributions to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. The award recognises both his exceptional teaching, and his outstanding contribution in launching the new MPhil in Data Intensive Science programme.
Professor Benedikt Löwe awarded Faculty Lecturing Prize
19 February 2025
The 2024-2025 Faculty Lecturing Prize has been awarded to Professor Benedikt Löwe in recognition of the outstanding student feedback received on his courses.
Senior Government minister visits Cambridge to explore the potential of AI
6 February 2025
The Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, met researchers including DAMTP’s Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb to discuss ways in which AI can transform public services and healthcare.
Professor Jack Thorne FRS awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
3 December 2024
Professor Jack Thorne FRS (DPMMS) has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Grant. The grants, funded through the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars as they establish their independent research teams and develop their most promising scientific ideas.