Postgraduate palaeontologist and biophysicist receive awards
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Two PhD 蘑菇视频下载安卓 at St John鈥檚 have been recognised for their innovative research and communication skills.
Princess Aira Buma-at has won a 2024 Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting President鈥檚 Prize, the association鈥檚 highest award given to PhD 蘑菇视频下载安卓 and early-career researchers within a year of achieving their higher degree.
Princess, who is a PhD student in Palaeontology in the Department of Zoology and the Museum of Zoology, was one of six winners of the prize, which she was given for her illustrated talk at the 68th Annual Meeting at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit盲t (FAU) Erlangen-N眉rnberg in Erlangen, Germany, in December.
鈥淚t鈥痺as my first time presenting my PhD findings at a conference so鈥痳eceiving the award was truly a fantastic surprise,鈥 said Princess, whose talk was called Morphometric Analyses of 鈥楥harniodiscus鈥 from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada.
The winners received an official certificate and one-year free membership to the association.
The award is Princess鈥檚 second prize in less than a year; in June she was presented with the President鈥檚 Award from The Geological Society for her 鈥榠nnovative research鈥 as well as her 鈥榠nfectious enthusiasm and talent for effortlessly translating geoscience to different audiences鈥.
Simon Brauberger, who is in the first year of his PhD in Biophysics, has received a prize at the Single-Molecule Sensors and NanoSystems International Conference in Paris for his poster about using solid-state nanopores, a single-molecule DNA/RNA sensor for gene expression analysis.
Simon, who has a Marie Curie Doctoral Fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory, received a certificate and 拢500 at the conference at the end of October.
He said: 鈥淩eceiving this recognition for my work has been incredibly motivating, highlighting its significance and the interest it has generated among fellow researchers.
鈥淚n Cambridge鈥檚 high-performance environment, it鈥檚 easy to forget sometimes how impactful and relevant our research truly is.鈥
Published: 15/1/2025