Skip to main content
Menu
10 January 2019

Latest News

Professor Philipp Kukura (MChem, 1998) named as 2019 Blavatnik Chemistry Laureate

Congratulations to St Hugh’s alum Professor Philipp Kukura (MChem, 1998) on being named the 2019 Blavatnik Chemistry Laureate!

He said the award recognised the incredible “hard work, creativity and perseverance of my students and postdoc”, who made his scientific work “possible in the first place” and said he was “grateful and humbled”.

Warm congratulations from all at St Hugh’s to Professor Kukura on this exceptional achievement.

His research focuses on “the development and application of new optical methodologies to study structure and dynamics down to nanometer length scales” and aims to push the boundaries “of what we can measure with light.”

Share this post

Related News Posts

St Hugh’s Garden Party
On Saturday 22 June we welcomed over 600 alumni and friends from far and wide to the annual St Hugh's Garden Party held in the College's beautiful gar...
Read More
St Hugh’s celebrates Women in Engineering Day 2024
This year's "Women in Engineering Day" is recognising the amazing work that women engineers around the world are doing to support lives and livelihood...
Read More
New edition of book written by St Hugh’s alumna, Mary Renault, to be published
We are delighted to announce that a stunning new hardback edition of The Persian Boy written by novelist and alumna Mary Renault (English Lan...
Read More