Major Prizes and Awards

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2012.

The Cambridge Philosophical Society Hopkins Prize 2009, for work on liquid crystal elastomers, particularly non-linear photo-induced deformations.

EPSRC Senior Fellowship, 2008-2013. Professorial Research Fellowship, plus post-doc, computing and other support. Release from teaching and administration until April 2013.

The EuroPhysics Prize of the European Physical Society, 2003, for discoveries in liquid crystal elastomers. Formerly the Hewlett-Packard (Agilent) Prize of the EPS - leading prize for condensed matter physics. [SF50,000]

Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2002. See citation.

Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, 2000, for seminal work on liquid crystal elastomers. [DM100,000]

Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics, 1989, for statistical mechanics of liquid crystals and polymers.