Gravitational Physics Group thesis prize
This prize is awarded for excellence in physics research and communication.
The prize is £500.
The winner is invited to submit a paper to Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG) based on their thesis. If accepted, it is made a select article in CQG.
They will also have the opportunity to present their work at one of the UK BritGrav meetings.
How to enter
All members of the IOP Gravitational Physics Group who have passed their viva voce exam since and including 30 September 2023 or who will have passed between now and 31 December 2024 are eligible.
We are no longer accepting applications.
Please send any enquiries to Professor Brien Nolan ([email protected]).
Winners
2023
Thomas Celora
University of Southampton. For Dissipation and turbulence in general relativistic hydrodynamics.
Panel: Abraham Harte, Béatrice Bonga, Brien Nolan, Brynmor Haskell, Chris Kavanagh, Denis Martynov, Hartmut Grote, Helvi Witek, Pau Figueras, Reinhard Prix, Stephen Fairhurst, and Tanja Hinderer.
2022
Benjamin Leather
University College Dublin. For Numerical Approaches to First- and Second-order Self-force Calculations.
Panel: Dr Sam Dolan, Dr Abraham Harte, Dr David Hilditch, Dr Tanja Hinderer, Dr Maarten van de Meent, Dr Geraint Pratten and Professor Andrew Tolley.
2021
Fabian Gittins
University of Southampton. For Gravitational Waves from Deformed Neutron Stars: Mountains and Tides.
Panel: Dr Timothy Clifton, Dr Djuna Croon, Dr Scott Melville, Dr Chris Moore, Dr Matt Pitkin and Dr Dave Tsang.
2020
Aneesh Naik
University of Nottingham. For Galaxy-Scale Signatures of Screened Modified Gravities.
Panel: Dr Thomas Dent and Dr Chris Messenger.
2019
Scott Melville
Imperial College London. For Constraining Low Energy Effective Field Theories via High Energy Axioms.
2018
Benjamin Wallisch
University of Cambridge. For Cosmological Probes of Light Relics.
2017
Viraj Sanghai
Queen Mary University London. For Post-Newtonian Gravity in Cosmology.
2016
Dr Daniela Saadeh
University College London. For Testing the Isotropy of the Universe with the CMB.
2015
Dr John Muddle
University of Southampton. For Advanced Numerical Methods For Neutron Star Interfaces.
2014
Dr Patricia Schmidt
Cardiff University. For Studying and Modelling the Complete Gravitational-Wave Signal from Precessing Black Hole Binaries.
2013
Dr Anna Heffernan
University College Dublin. For The Self-force Problem: Local Behaviour of the Detweiler-Whiting Singular Field.
2012
Dr Cesar Simon Lopez-Monsalvo
University of Southampton. For Covariant Thermodynamics and Relativity.
2011
Dr John Miller
University of Glasgow. For On non-Gaussian Beams and Optomechanical Parametric Instabilities in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors.
2010
Dr Barry Wardell
University College Dublin. For Green Functions and Radiation Reaction from a Spacetime Perspective.
2009
Dr Emanuele Rocco
Birmingham. For Development of a test of Newton's Law of Gravitation at Micrometre Distances Using a Superconducting Spherical Torsion Balance.
2008
Dr Julian Sonner
Cambridge. For Aspects of Classical and Quantum Brane Dynamics.