Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
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The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award is an award to outstanding scientists holding posts at UK universities. It is administered by the Royal Society
and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation
and the UK Office of Science and Technology
, this scheme aims to give universities additional support to attract key researchers, with great potential or outstanding achievement, to this country or to retain those who might seek to gain higher salaries elsewherehttp://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/funding.asp?id=1127.
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation
Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation is a charity that awards grants to support excellence in the fields of science and medicine, health, education and the arts & humanities.- Overview :...
and the UK Office of Science and Technology
Office of Science and Technology
The Office of Science and Technology , later named the Office of Science and Innovation, was a non-ministerial government department of the British government between 1992 and 2007....
, this scheme aims to give universities additional support to attract key researchers, with great potential or outstanding achievement, to this country or to retain those who might seek to gain higher salaries elsewherehttp://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/funding.asp?id=1127.
Winners
- Samuel L. BraunsteinSamuel L. BraunsteinSamuel Leon Braunstein is a professor in the Computer Science department at the University of York, UK. He is a member of a research group in non-standard computation, and has a particular interest in quantum information and quantum computation.Braunstein has written or edited three books, and has...
- Peter BunemanPeter BunemanOscar Peter Buneman FRS, FRSE is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory.Buneman received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Warwick, in 1970. After that he worked briefly at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a professorship of...
- Marianna CsörnyeiMarianna CsörnyeiMarianna Csörnyei is a Hungarian mathematician. She works in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional analysis. She proved the equivalence of the zero measure notions of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.She received her doctorate from Eötvös Loránd University...
- Roger Davies (astrophysicist)Roger Davies (astrophysicist)Roger Llewelyn Davies is a British astronomer and cosmologist, one of the so-called Seven Samurai collaboration who discovered an apparent concentration of mass in the Universe called the Great Attractor. He is the Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University...
- Georg GottlobGeorg GottlobGeorg Gottlob FRS is an Oxford-based Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence.Gottlob obtained his PhD in computer science at Vienna University of Technology in 1981...
- Peter Green (statistician)Peter Green (statistician)Peter Green FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He holds a chair in statistics at Bristol University. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of...
- Martin HairerMartin HairerMartin Hairer is a mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations....
- Mark Handley (computer scientist)Mark Handley (computer scientist)Mark Handley is Professor of Networked Systems in the Department of Computer Science of University College London since 2003, where he leads the Networks Research Group...
- Nicholas HighamNicholas HighamNicholas John Higham FRS is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester....
- Gordon PlotkinGordon PlotkinGordon D. Plotkin, FRS, FRSE is a Scottish computer scientist.Gordon Plotkin is best-known for his introduction of structural operational semantics and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics of 1981 were very influential...
- Ari LaptevAri LaptevAri Laptev is a mathematician working on the spectral theory of partial differential equations.His PhD was obtained in 1978 at Leningrad State University under the supervision of Michael Solomyak....