Special interest group prizes
IOP's special interest groups offer a variety of prizes. Visit each prize page to find out more including how to apply.
If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected].
| Special interest group | Type of prize | Prize name (if named) |
|---|---|---|
| Astroparticle Physics | Early Career Prize | IOP APP Early Career Prize |
| Astroparticle Physics | Thesis Prize | IOP APP Thesis Prize |
| Biological Physics | Lecture series | Tom Duke Lecture Prize |
| British Carbon Group | Student/Early Career Prize | Brian Kelly Award |
| British Carbon Group | Outstanding Contribution | SCI "Carbon in Industry" Award |
| British Carbon Group | Lecture series | The Ubbelohde Memorial Lectures |
| BRSG: The Magnetic Resonance Group | Prize for very early career talk (PhD/PDRA) | Founder's Prize |
| BRSG: The Magnetic Resonance Group | Prize for early career researchers | BRSG-NMRDG prize |
| Combustion Physics | Presentation Prize | Felix Weinberg prize |
| Combustion Physics | Poster Prize | |
| Combustion Physics | Best PhD | Lefebvre prize |
| Combustion Physics | Best paper | Ricardo award |
| Combustion Physics | Services to combustion | Huw Edwards prize |
| Computational Physics | Thesis Prize | Computational Physics Group Thesis Prize |
| Dielectrics and Electrostatics | Early Career Prize | Mansel Davies Prize |
| Dielectrics and Electrostatics | Early Career Prize | John Chubb Prize |
| Electron Microscopy and Analysis | Oral Presentation | Best Student Oral Presentation |
| Electron Microscopy and Analysis | Oral Presentation | Best Student Oral Presentation |
| Electron Microscopy and Analysis | Poster Presentation | Best Student Poster Presentation |
| Electron Microscopy and Analysis | Flash Presentation | Best Student Flash Presentation |
| Environmental Physics | Essay Competition | Annual essay competition |
| Food Physics | Poster Prize | Best Student Poster |
| Food Physics | Presentation Prize | Best Student Presentation |
| Gravitational Physics Group | Thesis Prize | Gravitational Physics Group Thesis Prize |
| High Energy Particle Physics | Early Career Contribution Prize | The HEPP Group Prize |
| High Energy Particle Physics | Early Career Contribution Prize | The HEPP Group Science in Society Prize |
| High Energy Particle Physics | Poster Prize | The HEPP Group Poster Prize |
| Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions | Poster Prize | IPSI Group Poster Prize |
| Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions | Thesis Prize | Outstanding PhD Thesis Award |
| Liquids and Complex Fluids | Early Career Prize | |
| Low Temperature Group | PhD student | |
| Low Temperature Group | Poster Prize | |
| Low Temperature Group | Outstanding Contribution | Simon Memorial Prize |
| Magnetism | Student Poster Prize | Magnetism Conference: Best student presentation prize |
| Materials and Characterisation | Early Career Prize | Early Career Prize for the Best Presentation at the Recent Appointees in Materials Science Meeting |
| Materials and Characterisation | Poster Prize | Group Poster Prize |
| Medical Physics | PhD student | Medical Physics Group PhD Prize |
| Nanoscale Physics and Technology | Thesis Prize | Franks Doctoral Thesis Prize |
| Neutron Scattering | Early Career Researcher | BTM Willis Prize |
| Neutron Scattering | Student Poster Prize | Penfold-Thomas Prize |
| Nuclear Industry | Early Career Prize | |
| Nuclear Industry | Career Contribution Prize | |
| Optical Group | Thesis Prize | Optical Group Thesis Prize |
| Optical Group | Essay Prize | Optical Group Undergraduate Essay Prize |
| Optical Group | Outstanding Contribution Prize | Optics and Photonics Prize (joint with Quantum Electronics and Photonics) |
| Particle Accelerators and Beams | Outstanding contribution prize | |
| Particle Accelerators and Beams | Poster Prize | Student and Early Career Scientist Poster Prize |
| Physical Acoustics | Annual prize for best paper in Physical Acoustics | Bob Chivers Prize in Physical Acoustics |
| Physics Communicators | Early Career Prize | Early Career Physics Communicator Award |
| Plasma Physics | Thesis Prize | Culham Thesis Prize |
| Plasma Physics | Communication Prize | Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize |
| Plasma Physics | Poster Prize | IOP Plasma Physics Student Poster Prize |
| Plasma Physics | Early Career Researcher Prize | Malcolm Haines Prize |
| Polymer Physics | Outstanding contribution to Polymer Physics in the UK or Ireland | Polymer Physics Founders Prize |
| Polymer Physics | Outstanding publication by a PhD student on a subject within our Group's remit | Ian Macmillan Ward Prize or the Best Student Publication |
| Polymer Physics | A lecture exchange with the Division of Polymer Physics of the American Physical Society (APS) | PPG/DPOLY Polymer Lecture Exchange |
| Printing and Graphics Science Group | Presentation Prize | Student presentation prize |
| Quantum Electronics and Photonics | Thesis Prize | Doctoral Research Prize |
| Quantum Electronics and Photonics | Outstanding contribution | Optics and Photonics Prize (joint with Optical Group) |
| Quantum Optics, Information and Control (QQQ) | Poster Prize | PHOTON QQQ poster prize |
| Semiconductor Physics | Presentation Prize | PhD Student Research Communication Prize |
| Semiconductor Physics | Thesis Prize | PhD Thesis Competition |
| Structural Condensed Matter Physics | Thesis Prize | Malvern PANalytical Thesis Prize |
| Structural Condensed Matter Physics | Early Career Publication Prize | Physical Crystallography Prize |
| Structural Condensed Matter Physics | Poster Prize | Physical Crystallography Poster Prize |
| Superconductivity | Thesis Prize | Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize |
| Superconductivity | Outstanding Contribution Prize | Brian Pippard Prize |
| Theory of Condensed Matter | Poster Prize | TCM 'Theory Day' Poster Prize |
| Theory of Condensed Matter | Thesis Prize | Annual “Sam Edwards” PhD Thesis Prize |
| Thin Films and Surfaces | Best poster presentation | TFSG Poster Prize |
| Thin Films and Surfaces | Best oral presentation | TFSG Oral Prize |
| Thin Films and Surfaces | Best PhD thesis | Woodruff Thesis Prize |
| Tribology | PhD student | Poster Award |
| Tribology | Early Stage Researcher | Innovation in Tribology Award |
| Vacuum | Poster Prize | Vacuum Group Poster Prize |
| Women in Physics | Award for achievement in research and outreach | Vacuum Group Poster Prize |