2020 Shortlist

Susana Gomes

Dr Gomes’s research lies at the intersection between Mathematics and Social Sciences as she works to apply the fundamentals of complex models to a variety of real-life situations. This proposal is a natural continuation of her previous work on estimation models for pedestrian dynamics.

Joy Egede

Considered as one of the world leaders in pain estimation for newborn babies, Dr Egede has dedicated her research career to understanding the signals and triggers of pain in infants. This is a challenging area of study due to ethical limitations and complexities with data gathering.

Katarzyna Mickiewicz

Dr Mickiewicz works to understand the roles that certain bacteria play within disease, focusing specifically on their contributions to antibiotic resistance.

Sarah Pickett

Known as the ‘powerhouse of the cell’, mitochondria are responsible for converting food energy into cellular energy.

Yijing Xie

Dr Carter works to understand the effects of ‘space weather’ on the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar winds (a stream of charged particles released from the Sun) interfere with our planet’s outer atmosphere and magnetic fields, and the products of these interactions hold the potential to cause mass disruption to technology on a global scale.

Nuria Oliva-Jorge

Dr Carter works to understand the effects of ‘space weather’ on the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar winds (a stream of charged particles released from the Sun) interfere with our planet’s outer atmosphere and magnetic fields, and the products of these interactions hold the potential to cause mass disruption to technology on a global scale.

Monika Warzecha

Dr Carter works to understand the effects of ‘space weather’ on the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar winds (a stream of charged particles released from the Sun) interfere with our planet’s outer atmosphere and magnetic fields, and the products of these interactions hold the potential to cause mass disruption to technology on a global scale.

Jennifer Carter

Dr Carter works to understand the effects of ‘space weather’ on the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar winds (a stream of charged particles released from the Sun) interfere with our planet’s outer atmosphere and magnetic fields, and the products of these interactions hold the potential to cause mass disruption to technology on a global scale.

Lilian Lieber

Dr Lieber displays expertise across multiple disciplines within biology and engineering. She is working to use acoustic instrumentation and data analysis in order to understand how we can use ocean energy safely.

Aida Cuní Sanchez

Dr Cuní Sanchez is working to understand which indigenous tree species thrive under the complex conditions of the mountainous ‘Albertine Rift’ region in Africa.