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 | Philip Leverhulme Prize 2003, European Young Investigator 2005-2010 |
Professor Gilles Chabrier |
Grand Prix Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society, 2010 |
Professor Isabelle Baraffe | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2010, Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize 2020 |
Professor Stefan Kraus | Philip Leverhulme Prize 2013, STFC Rutherford 2013-18 |
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