Professor Sondipon Adhikari from the School of Engineering at Swansea University has been awarded a Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society for his nanotechnology research.

This award scheme is jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and it aims to support universities in attracting scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.

Professor Adhikari is an international authority on the uncertainty quantification in the computational predictions of complex systems.

The Wolfson Award, which provides funding for five years, will allow Professor Adhikari to take nanotechnology research to the next level by linking the nano scale to the macro scale using novel length-scale bridging approaches.

Vice-Chancellor at Swansea University, Professor Richard B Davies says, 'This Wolfson Research Merit Award is a well-deserved accolade for an outstanding scholar.  I am delighted that the Royal Society has recognised the world-leading qualities of Professor Adhikari’s research and join with all his colleagues at Swansea in congratulating him on this remarkable achievement.'

Professor Adhikari says, 'I am absolutely delighted to receive this prestigious award from the Royal Society. Swansea is a truly outstanding place to conduct internationally leading research. This award will enable me to foster further multidisciplinary collaborations. I am looking forward to the next five years of exciting research in Swansea.'

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Content added on 18th May 2010.

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