Whittaker Prize winner 2025
Dr. Jan Sbierski (University of Edinburgh)
Prof. Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews) The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize for 2023 has been awarded to Professor Jonathan Fraser of the University of St Andrews in recognition of his outstanding research achievements.
Prof. Chris Dent, Dr Amy Wilson (The University of Edinburgh) and Dr Stan Zachary (Heriot-Watt University) The prize was awarded for the recipients’ collaboration supporting National Grid with methodology for assessment of the risk of electricity supply shortfalls in Great Britain and recommending capacity to mitigate this risk; and for wider contributions to development of collaboration between the energy sector […]
Dr Leonardo Tolomeo (The University of Edinburgh) The EMS PhD Thesis Prize for 2021 was awarded to Dr Leonardo Tolomeo of the Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn (PhD, University of Edinburgh) for his outstanding thesis ‘Stochastic dispersive PDEs with additive space-time white noise’.
Dr Ben Davison (The University of Edinburgh) The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize for 2021 has been awarded to Dr Ben Davison of The University of Edinburgh in recognition of his outstanding research achievements in the fields of enumerative counting invariants in algebraic geometry and non-commutative algebra.
Prof. Marian Scott OBE (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Andrew Cairns (Heriot-Watt University) Marian Scott is Professor of environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow. She is an applied statistician with broad research interests. Her current projects span archaeology and radiocarbon dating, measuring animal welfare and quality of life and more widely, the environment, whether that be air pollution and […]