Awards and Prizes
Alain Goriely has been awarded the 2025 LMS/IMA David Crighton Medal. The award recognises his deep and influential mathematical insights into mechanical and biological processes and materials, his support of early career mathematicians, and his contributions to the public understanding of mathematics and its applications.
Alain's work embraces a broad range of problems including dynamical systems, the mechanics of biological growth, the modelling of the brain, the theoretical foundations of mechanics and the dynamics of curves, knots, and rods.
Three Oxford Mathematicians have won London Mathematical Society (LMS) Prizes for 2025. Nigel Hitchin has won the De Morgan Medal, Helen Byrne has won the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics and Vidit Nanda has won a Whitehead Prize.
Nigel Hitchin was Rouse Ball Professor in Cambridge until 1997 when he became Oxford's Savilian Professor of Geometry. He retired in 2016 after winning the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences that year. Nigel's work has covered many areas on the interface of differential geometry, algebraic geometry and the equations of theoretical physics. He is perhaps best known for the integrable system which bears his name, and his work on instantons and monopoles.
Helen Byrne is a leading expert in mathematical biology. With over 25 years of experience, she specialises in developing mathematical models for biomedical systems, particularly in the field of mathematical oncology. Her research focuses on using mathematical, computational, topological, and statistical modelling techniques to study tumour growth, immune evasion, and treatment response mechanisms.
Vidit Nanda is a Professor of Mathematics here in Oxford. He works at the interface of algebraic topology, geometry and data science and is a member of the Data Science, Topology and Geometry groups in Oxford Mathematics.
In addition, José Carrillo has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2026, one of 40 new fellows for the forthcoming year. José is currently Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations here in the Mathematical Institute. He mainly works on kinetic and nonlinear nonlocal diffusion equations.