Congratulations to the winners for 2023!

Congratulations to our winners and all our shortlisted students. Two prizes were awarded by our panel of judges and one prize as a result of a vote by Imperial staff and students:

Judges' Choice awards

  • Best image prize worth £250: Anna Curran, Department of Mathematics
  • Runner-up image prize worth £200: Holly Holder, Department of Physics

People's Choice award

  • Prize worth £150: Theo Hembury, Department of Life Sciences

You can view the winners and other shortlisted images below.

Alternatively, you can view each of the shortlisted images and their associated captions in this PDF: PhD student photo competition winners 2023

 

PhD student photo competition

WINNER of the Best Image Prize:

Nature's Cleanser by Anna Curran (Maths)

PhD student photo competition

RUNNER-UP Image Prize:

Magnetic River Delta by Holly Holder (Physics)

PhD student photo competition

WINNER People's Choice Award:

Powering the Future by Theo Hembury (Life Sciences)

PhD student photo competition

SHORTLISTED:

Lord of the (Antibiotic Resistance) Rings, by Himani Amin (Life Sciences)

PhD student photo competition

SHORTLISTED:

Bringing the Cosmos to Earth: Recreating Astrophysical Shocks in the Lab, by Stefano Merlini (Physics)

PhD student photo competition

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Laser beams for cooling atoms, by Elizabeth Pasatembou (Physics)

PhD student photo competition

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Caught in the act – bacteria propagating antibiotic resistance, by Jonasz Patkowski (Life Sciences)

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The crux of breast cancer organoids, by Claudia Sanchez Cabanillas (Chemistry)

PhD student photo competition

SHORTLISTED:

Carbon nanotube dispersion in ionic liquid, by Zoyia Kamora (Chemistry)

PhD student photo competition

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Shedding light on cell division of the main malaria vector, by Matteo Vitale (Life Sciences)

PhD student photo competition

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Light and Matter, by Sumer Jaitly (Physics)

PhD student photo competition

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FINESSE'd, by Sanjeevani Panditharatne (Physics)