Alexia Lopez and the UCLan team (Lyndsey Boardman, Derek Ward-Thompson, StJohn Crean, Michael Fernando and Russell Millhouse) celebrated at the 20th Times Higher Education awards evening – often called the ‘Oscars of higher education’ – on Thursday 28th November in Birmingham.
Alexia Lopez, part-time PhD student in the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education awards, Research Project of the Year: STEM category, for her work in cosmology of the two ultra-large-scale structure discoveries she made: the Giant Arc and the Big Ring.
Alexia’s work on large-scale structures in cosmology raises potential challenges to fundamental assumptions upon which the standard model of cosmology is founded.
The team dressed to impress and enjoyed a fancy evening accompanied with a three-course meal, bubbly and fantastic entertainment from the comedian, writer and actor Miles Jupp.
The winner of the Research Project of the Year: STEM category was the University of Manchester for: “World-First Bedside Genetic Test to Prevent Babies Going Deaf.” Congratulations to all the shortlisters and winners of this year’s THE awards!
Russel Millhouse, Lyndsey Boardman, Derek Ward-Thompson and Alexia Lopez
Lyndsey Boardman with Alexia Lopez
Left: Alexia Lopez Right: Alexia with Head of SEC Mike Fernando (left) and JHI director Derek Ward-Thompson (right)