MPBE students awarded at the 2024 Student Awards Celebration
14 February 2025

On Wednesday 12 February, we were delighted to hold our annual Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Student Award Celebration which provided a fantastic opportunity to come together as a department and celebrate the achievements of our student community!
Our 2024 prize winners are:
Sidney Russ Prize for Best Finalist Undergraduate Student
Kai Mason
John Clifton Prize for Best Non-Finalist Undergraduate Student
Anson Nicholas Hui
Instron Prize for Best Group Research Project
Luca Daniele Ramella
Netanel Rosenberg Whyte
Valentino Thomas
Joseph Rotblat Prize for Best Masters Student
Chen Katzir
IPEM Prize for Best Research Project
Connor Creasey
i4Health CDT Best MRes Prize
Gabriel Oliveira Stahl
Runners up: Barbara Brito Vega and Jude Holmes
Robert Speller Prize for Best Paper by a PhD Student
Kai Mason
Noise-based correction for electrical impedance tomography
David Hawkes Prize for Best Paper in Imaging, Sensing or Interventional Sciences
Dr Jishizhan Chen
Liquid Crystalline Hydroxyapatite Nanorods Orchestrate Hierarchical Bone‐Like Mineralization
IET Prize for Outstanding Performance in their Engineering Degree
Valeria Dosso
Faculty of Engineering Sciences Medal and Prize
Valeria Dosso
Jackson Lewis Scholarship
Eugenia Lopez-Belmonte Deza
Dean’s List
Undergraduate: Urvi Dudeja, Andrew Keenlyside, Rozenn Rafaut, Valeria Dosso and Ching Hang Chiu
Postgraduate: Chen Katzir, Gabriel Oliveira Stahl, Ecem Erin and Anna Frances Gawne
Many congratulations from all of us at MPBE to our students on this tremendous achievement!
Many thanks to Instron and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) for their sponsorship of these awards.
A special thank you to UCL Emeritus Professors Robert Speller and David Hawkes and in memory of Professor John Clifton who sadly passed away in January 2023. Read Prof Clifton’s tribute here.