Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellows 2026
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and the Leverhulme Trust have appointed seven new Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellows.
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the scheme seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all their teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Fellowships cover all areas of the life and physical sciences, including engineering, but excluding clinical medicine.
The awardees are as follows (in alphabetical order):
Professor Chris Allton
Swansea University
Does the Strong Interaction break once, or twice? The two transition temperatures in QCD
Professor Michael Davies
University of Edinburgh
A New Framework for Self-Supervised Learning in Machine Imaging
Professor Edward Daw
University of Sheffield
Accelerated Progress in Quantum Sensing for the Hidden Sector (AP-QSHS)
Dr Helen Fraser
Open University
Unveiling the Icy Universe
Professor Eram Rizvi
Queen Mary University of London
From Precision To Discovery: The Path To New Physics
Professor Ari Sadanandom
Durham University
Revealing the plant immune ROSylome
Professor Pawel Swietach
University of Oxford
Is excessive erythrocytosis in Chronic Mountain Sickness driven by impaired oxygen release from red blood cells: a “kinetic anaemia”?