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

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from 2000 to 2020. It was administered by the

and jointly funded by the

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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

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a c ...

) award included: * Sue Black * Samuel L. Braunstein *

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 F ...

(2012) * Michael Bronstein (2018) * Peter Buneman * ''Michael Cant'' (2015) * José A. Carrillo (2012) * Ken Carslaw * Marianna Csörnyei * Candace Currie (2015) * Nicholas Dale (2015) * Roger Davies * René de Borst * Nora de Leeuw * Jonathan Essex * Ernesto Estrada * Wenfei Fan * Andrea C. Ferrari * Philip A. Gale (2013) * Matthew Gaunt (2015) * Alain Goriely (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 * Martin Hairer *

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 * Nicholas Higham * Simone Hochgreb (2003) * Saiful Islam (2013) * Brad Karp * Tara Keck * Rebecca Kilner (2015) * Daniela Kuhn (2015) * Alistair Pike * Ari Laptev * Tim Lenton * Malcolm Levitt * Stephan Lewandowsky * Leonid Libkin * Jon Lloyd (microbiologist) (2015) * Andy Mackenzie * Barbara Maher (2006 -2012) * Vladimir Markovic * ''Robin May'' (2015) * Paul Milewski * E.J. Milner-Gulland * Tim Minshull (2015) * André Neves * Peter O'Hearn * ''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 h ...

'' * ''Adrian Podoleanu'' (2015) * '' David Richardson'' * '' Gareth Roberts'' (2015) * Alexander Ruban (2015) * ''Daniela Schmidt'' (2015) * '' Steven H. Simon'' * Nigel Smart * ''John Smillie'' (2015) * '' John Speakman'' * 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 structu ...

(2014) * Richard Thomas * Vlatko Vedral (2007) * Benjamin Willcox (2015) * Richard Winpenny (2009) * '' Philip J. Withers'' (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

References

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