The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award was an award made by the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

from 2000 to 2020. It was administered by the

and jointly funded by the

Wolfson Foundation The Wolfson Foundation is a charity that awards grants to support excellence in the fields of science and medicine, health, education and the arts and humanities. Overview The endowment of the Wolfson Foundation is currently some £800 million, ...

and the UK

Office of Science and Technology The Office of Science and Technology (OST), later (briefly) named the Office of Science and Innovation, was a non-ministerial government department of the British government between 1992 and 2007. The office was responsible for co-ordination of ...

, to provide universities "with additional financial support to attract key researchers to this country or to retain those who might seek to gain higher salaries elsewhere." to tackle the brain drain. They were given in four annual rounds, with up to seven awards per round. In 2020 the scheme was replaced by the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship, described by the Royal Society as providing ''long-term flexible funding for senior career researchers recruited or retained to a UK university or research institution in fields identified as a strategic priority for the host department or organisation.''

Recipients

Winners of this award (see

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) award included: * Sue Black *

Samuel L. Braunstein Samuel Leon Braunstein (born 1961) is a professor at the University of York, UK. He is a member of a research group in non-standard computation, and has a particular interest in quantum information, quantum computation and black hole thermody ...

Martin Bridson Martin Robert Bridson is a Manx mathematician. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He was previously Head of Oxford's Mathematical Institute. He is a ...

(2012) *

Michael Bronstein Michael Bronstein (b. 1980) is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a computer science professor at the University of Oxford. Biography Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion in 2007. Since 2010, he has been a profes ...

(2018) *

Peter Buneman Oscar Peter Buneman, (born 1943) is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory. Education Buneman was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts while study ...

* ''Michael Cant'' (2015) *

José A. Carrillo José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata (; born 29 December 1969) is a Spanish mathematician primarily known for his contributions in applied partial differential equations, numerical analysis, many particle systems and kinetic theory. His works make ...

(2012) *

Ken Carslaw Kenneth S. Carslaw is Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds. He was educated at the University of Birmingham (BSc, 1989) and the University of East Anglia (MSc, 1991; PhD, 1994). He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2 ...

Marianna Csörnyei Marianna Csörnyei (born October 8, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Chicago. She does research in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional anal ...

* Candace Currie (2015) * Nicholas Dale (2015) *

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* René de Borst *

Nora de Leeuw Nora Henriette de Leeuw is the inaugural executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at University of Leeds. Her research field is computational chemistry and investigates biomaterials, sustainable energy, and carbon ca ...

* Jonathan Essex * Ernesto Estrada *

Wenfei Fan Wenfei Fan () is a Chinese-British computer scientist and professor of web data management at the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates database theory and database systems. Education Fan was educated at Peking University (BS, MS ...

* Andrea C. Ferrari *

Philip A. Gale Philip Alan Gale (born 1969) is a British chemist, Deputy Dean of Science and Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney. He is notable for his work on the supramolecular chemistry of anions. Gale was bor ...

(2013) * Matthew Gaunt (2015) *

Alain Goriely Alain Goriely FRS is a Belgian mathematician, currently holding the statutory professorship (chair) of mathematical modelling at the University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute. He is director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial Mathematics (O ...

(2010) *

Georg Gottlob Georg Gottlob FRS is an Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence and is Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford. Education Gottlob obtained his undergraduate and PhD ...

* Andrew Granville (2015) * Peter Green *

Ruth Gregory Ruth Ann Watson Gregory is a British mathematician and physicist, currently Head of Department of Physics and Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.

Martin Hairer Sir Martin Hairer (born 14 November 1975) is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL (École Polytechnique F ...

Edwin Hancock Edwin Hancock (FREng) (born June 1956) is a British computer scientist at the University of York specialising in computer vision and pattern recognition. Education Edwin Hancock graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1977, a ...

Mark Handley Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter. In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves. He is best known for his play ''Idioglossia An idioglossia (from ...

Nicholas Higham Nicholas John Higham FRS (born 25 December 1961 in Salford) is a British numerical analyst. He is Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchest ...

Simone Hochgreb Simone Hochgreb is a Brazilian mechanical engineer whose research has concerned efficiency and pollution in internal combustion engines, and the structure of premixed flames. She is Professor of Experimental Combustion at the University of Camb ...

(2003) * Saiful Islam (2013) *

Brad Karp Brad Nelson Karp is an American computer scientist, specializing in computer networks. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1992 and got his master's and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995 and 2000 respectively, under the ...

Tara Keck Tara Keck (born November 26, 1978, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American-British neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, at University College London working in the Department of Neuroscien ...

Rebecca Kilner Rebecca M. Kilner FRES is a British evolutionary biologist, and a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge. Education and career Kilner studied a BA in Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1992, and received a Ph.D. ...

(2015) * Daniela Kuhn (2015) * Alistair Pike *

Ari Laptev Ari Laptev (born August 10, 1950) is a mathematician working on the spectral theory of partial differential equations. His PhD was obtained in 1978 at Leningrad State University under the supervision of Michael Solomyak.Tim Lenton Timothy Michael Lenton (born July 1973) is Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. In April 2013 he was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He graduated with a first-class degree in nat ...

Malcolm Levitt Malcolm Harris Levitt is a British physical chemist and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist. He is Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. Education and ...

Stephan Lewandowsky Stephan Lewandowsky (born 3 June 1958) is an Australian psychologist. He has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is the chair of cognitive psychology at the School of ...

Leonid Libkin Leonid Libkin is a computer scientist who works in data management, in particular in database theory, and in logic in computer science. Libkin is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he is chair of Foundations of Data Managemen ...

* Jon Lloyd (microbiologist) (2015) *

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* Barbara Maher (2006 -2012) *

Vladimir Markovic Vladimir Marković is a Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford. He was previously the John D. MacArthur Professor at the California Institute of Technology (2013–2020) and Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of ...

* ''Robin May'' (2015) * Paul Milewski *

E.J. Milner-Gulland Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland (born 3 June 1967) is the Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity and head of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science. She is particu ...

* Tim Minshull (2015) *

André Neves André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves (born 1975, Lisbon) is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he sol ...

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* ''William Lionheart'' (2015) * ''Fabrice Pierron'' * ''

Gordon Plotkin Gordon David Plotkin, (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and hi ...

'' * ''Adrian Podoleanu'' (2015) * '' David Richardson'' * '' Gareth Roberts'' (2015) * Alexander Ruban (2015) * ''Daniela Schmidt'' (2015) * ''

Steven H. Simon Steven H. Simon (born 1967) is an American theoretical physics professor at Oxford University (since 2009) and professorial fellow of Somerville College, Oxford (since 2016). From 2000 to 2008 he was the director of theoretical physics research a ...

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* ''John Smillie'' (2015) * ''

John Speakman John Roger Speakman (born 1958) is a British biologist working at the University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, for which he was Director from 2007 to 2011. He leads the University's Energetics Research Group, ...

'' * David Stephenson (2015) * ''Kate Storey'' (2015) * Andrew Taylor (2015) *

Françoise Tisseur Françoise Tisseur is a numerical analyst and Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK. She works in numerical linear algebra and in particular on nonlinear eigenvalue problems and structur ...

(2014) * Richard Thomas *

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(2007) * Benjamin Willcox (2015) *

Richard Winpenny Richard Eric Parry Winpenny is a British chemist and a professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Winpenny's research is within the fields of inorganic chemistry and ...

(2009) * ''

Philip J. Withers Philip John Withers (born May 1963) FREng FRS is the Regius Professor of Materials in the School of Materials, University of Manchester. and Chief Scientist of the Henry Royce Institute. Education Withers was educated at the University of Camb ...

'' (2002) * Tim Wright (2015) *

Ziheng Yang Ziheng Yang FRS (; born 1 November 1964) is a Chinese biologist. He holds the R.A. Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics at University College London,‘YANG, Prof. Ziheng’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Pre ...

* Xin Yao (2012) *

Nikolay I. Zheludev Nikolay Zheludev (born 23 April 1955) is a British scientist specializing in nanophotonics, metamaterials, nanotechnology, electrodynamics, and nonlinear optics. Nikolay Zheludev is one of the founding members of the closely interlinked fields o ...

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