We are very pleased to announce Dr Rivka Isaacson of King’s College London as the 2021 (and 8th) Judith Howard Lecturer.

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 year’s Thesis Prize will be awarded to Lucas Rudden (Department of Physics) for his thesis “The Impact of Dynamics in Protein Assembly”.

Research recently published by Dr Alistair Bounds & Professor John Girkin (Durham University Department of Physics) could lead the way to the end of the dentists drill.

For National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW21 we celebrated some of our amazing postdocs. Below we introduce a few these outstanding Postdocs and share a snapshot of their fascinating work as well as a little of what makes them so special to us.

A recent paper in Nature from Matthew Kitching (Department of Chemistry and member of the BSI) describes the first ever general method for the selective preparation of chiral ammonium ions.

Image above: On September 4th and 5th 2014, a group of >50 of Bob’s friends and colleagues, both old and new, gathered at Collingwood College, University of Durham to celebrate the history, discoveries and future of research associated with Bob’s time in the field.

We are very pleased to announce Dr Yuval Elani from Imperial College London as the 2022 Judith Howard Lecturer.

We are pleased to announce that the 2022 BSI Thesis Prize has been awarded to Dr Ben Usher.