Awards, etc.

Adams Prize 2026

The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers, under the age of 40, doing first-class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. The Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and commemorates Adams’ role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.

This year’s topic was ‘Discrete Mathematics’, and the Prize is awarded jointly to:

Dr Richard Montgomery, University of Warwick, for his profound contributions to extremal combinatorics; and

Dr Julian Sahasrabudhe, University of Cambridge, for his progress on many longstanding fundamental problems in combinatorics and its interfaces with other areas.

For further information on the Adams Prize see https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize.

Pilkington Prize Winners, 2026

The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually to members of staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching excellence. The awards were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington who believed that the quality of teaching was crucial to the University’s success.

The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning is delighted to announce the 2026 Pilkington Prize winners as follows:

Professor Julian Allwood, CTH – Department of Engineering

Dr Monique Boddington – Judge Business School

Professor Nicholas Butterfield, SE – Department of Earth Sciences

Professor John Carr, CC – Department of Plant Sciences

Dr Fiona Cooke, G – School of Clinical Medicine

Professor Orietta Da Rold, JN – Faculty of English

Dr Oleg Kitov, SE – Faculty of Economics

Dr Rachel Leow – Faculty of History

Professor María Noriega-Sánchez, SID – Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

Professor Dhruv Ranganathan, JN – Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Ms Klaud Simpson – School of Clinical Medicine

Professor Edgar Turner, CL – Department of Zoology

More information about the awards and this year’s winners can be found on the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning website at https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize.