Dr Dimitrios I. Gerogiorgis, a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP) of the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the Academy of Athens Loukas Moussoulos Research Publication Excellence Prize, in recognition of his paper entitled "Model-based sensitivity analysis and experimental investigation of perlite grain expansion in a vertical electrical furnace" (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2013), a publication he co-authored while at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

Jason Reese is on the winning team of the new EPSRC Programme Grant EP/N016602/1 "Nano-Engineered Flow Technologies: Simulation for Design across Scale and Phase". This flagship research programme is a collaboration between Warwick and Edinburgh Universities, and Daresbury Lab.