Honours, Prizes and Awards
2022 – Awarded Thornton Medal from Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
2018 – Awarded Max Planck Gottingen Institutes Medal for science communication.
2018 – Awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List.
2017 – Awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize.
2015 – Won a US National Academies Keck Futures Prize.
2015 – Won the AAAS Prize for Public Engagement with Science.
2014 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2014 – Won the Royal Society Winton Prize.
2013 – Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Medal.
2013 – Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Minerals, Metals and Mining
2010- Gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures called Size Matters