Sir John Meurig Thomas, Honorary Professor in the School of Chemistry and Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University, has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Royal Medal for Physical Sciences by the Royal Society.
Dr Christopher Berry, a senior lecturer from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, has been awarded a National Geographic Society grant to reconstruct ancient fossil forests.
Dr Liz Bagshaw recently completed a fieldtrip to the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream where she is involved in a project to understand ice which is moving at up to 20cm per day.