Department of Materials announces 2024 prize winners

Professor Sandrine Heutz and Tianyi Yin, Winner of the Constance Fligg Tipper Cenetenary Memorial Prize

The Department of Materials has announced its student prizes for 2024. The prizes were celebrated at Commemoration Day on Wednesday 16 October.

Undergraduate Prize Winners

Lauren Vinten: Armourers' & Brasiers' Company Award

Sami Kibal: Armourers' & Brasiers' Company Award

Martin Folwarczny: Armourers' & Brasiers' Company Award

Muskaan Betala: Armourers' & Brasiers' Company Award

Shirley Xu: Armourers' & Brasiers' Company Award

The Armourers & Brasiers Company Award is a prize awarded to students for being one of the outstanding performers in the final year of a MEng programme.

Antonia Fetzer: Ernest Edward Glorney Scholarship

The Ernest Edward Glorney Scholarship is an annual award that recognises excellence. It is awarded to an undergraduate student completing their final year examinations. The scholarship may be used to study for another year at the college or to obtain practical training.

Bill Qian: Governors' BEng Prize in Materials

Carlos Barbero Rodriguez: Governors' BEng Prize in Materials

The Governors’ BEng Prize in Materials is an annual award to an outstanding student in the final undergraduate year of the BEng or MEng course.

Karen Pacho Dominguez: Institute of Materials Prize

The Institute of Materials Prize is an annual award to a final-year student for performance during the whole of their undergraduate course.

Abhi Rajendran: Materials Student Centenary Prize

The Materials Student Centenary Prize is an annual award that recognises a fourth-year undergraduate student who is judged to have completed the best MEng Placement Project.

Lola Bourgeais: Final MEng Student Prize: Excellence in Responsibility for Sustainable Research

The Final MEng Student Prize is an annual prize that recognises a student who can show sustainable behaviour and practice in their MEng research project.

Benedikt Schultes: Peter Pratt Memorial Prize

The Peter Pratt Memorial Prize is an annual award that recognises an undergraduate student who produces the best final-year project.

Wiktor Szopa: The Robert Cahn Award

The Robert Cahn Award is awarded for Excellence in Materials Characterisation.

Douglas Penning: Ronald Jock Mcgregor Prize

The Ronald Jock Mcgregor Prize is awarded to an undergraduate student who produces the best second-year case study.

Toby Hallett: Rolls Royce / Armourers & Brasiers First Year Undergraduate Award: Toby Hallett

Anastasia Sakach: Rolls Royce / Armourers & Brasiers First Year Undergraduate Award: Toby Hallett

The Rolls Royce / Armourers & Brasiers First Year Undergraduate Award is awarded to the top two performing first-year undergraduate students.

Orazio Marenzi: Charles Salter Prize

The Charles Salter Prize is an annual award for excellence in Metallurgy to a student completing his/her finals in this subject.

Naveed Ishtiaque: Tin Plate Workers Prize

Alekos Jackson:  Tin Plate Workers Prize

The Tin Plate Workers prize is given to two third-year MEng students who achieve the highest overall score.

Muaz bin Abd Rohim: The Thomas Young Centre Mathematics Prize

Donya Sharifi: The Emma Warriss Undergraduate Student Prize

The Emma Warriss Undergraduate Student Prize is an annual award in memory of Emma Warriss. It is awarded to an undergraduate student in the Department of Materials who has been key to establishing a fun and cohesive environment within the Department.

Research Postgraduate (PhD) Prize Winners 

Daniel Long: Matthey Prize

The Matthey Prize is awarded to an Associate of the Royal School of Mines for research completed in the Department of Materials.

Xinwei Wang: The TYC@Imperial prize

The TYC@Imperial prize recognises a student who has demonstrated the most important and innovative contribution to research in the Theory and Simulation of Materials.

Matthew Spry: McLean Medal

The McLean Medal recognises the postgraduate student with the best accepted or published journal paper.

Caiwu Liang: John Kilner Prize for Energy Materials

The John Kilner Prize for Energy Materials recognises excellence in a PhD study in any subject related to materials for application in energy conversion systems.

Tianyi Yin: Constance Fligg Tipper Centenary Memorial Prize

The Constance Fligg Tipper Centenary Memorial Prize recognises a completing PhD student showing the most industry and independence in research with outstanding contributions to Materials Science and Engineering.

Harry Demetriou: Prize in Advanced Materials Characterisation Techniques

The Prize in Advanced Materials Characterisation Techniques recognises the best postgraduate research student using advanced materials characterisation techniques leading to a higher degree.

Oliver Osborn: Tony Evans Memorial Prize

The Tony Evans Memorial Prize recognises a student with the best PhD Thesis in the ceramics discipline, as determined by the Director of the Structural Ceramics Centre based on the examiners’ report.

Jinghan Zheng: The Larry Hench Biomaterials Prize

The Larry Hench Biomaterials Prize recognises excellence in a PhD in a Biomaterials-related subject.