Awards and achievements

ERC grants

The Astrophysics group has been awarded eleven prestigious ERC grants:

Professor Isabelle Baraffe	ERC Advanced 2013-18, ERC Advanced 2018-23
Professor Gilles Chabrier	ERC Advanced 2010-15
Professor Matthew Bate	ERC Advanced 2014-19
Dr Matthew Browning	ERC Starting 2014-19
Dr Clare Dobbs	ERC Starting 2011-16, ERC Consolidator 2019-24
Dr David Sing	ERC Starting 2014-19
Dr Stefan Kraus	ERC Starting 2015-20, ERC Consolidator 2021-26
Dr Sean Matt	ERC Consolidator 2016-21

Awards

From 2003 onwards the group also held/obtained the following awards:

Professor Matthew Bate	European Young Investigator 2005-2010, Philip Leverhulme Prize 2003
Professor Gilles Chabrier	Institute of Physics (IoP) Fellow, 2019 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize, 2019 Prize Ampère 2014: a scientific prize awarded annually by the French Academy of Sciences for outstanding research work in mathematics or physics Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011 Grand Prix Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society, 2010
Professor Isabelle Baraffe	Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture Award 2023, Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize 2020, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2010
Professor Stefan Kraus	STFC Rutherford 2013-18, Philip Leverhulme Prize 2013
Dr Chris Brunt	Harry Otten Prize for Innovation in Meteorology 2019

Professor Isabelle Baraffe appointed to Science and Technology Facilities Council 

On Friday 23 March 2018, Professor Isabelle Baraffe was announced by the Board of UK Research and Innovation as one of ten members of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the senior strategic body of the prominent organisation.

She served a three-year term on the Council from the launch of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on 1 April 2018. Read more