Our researchers

Scientists, engineers, philosophers, medics, economists, literary critics, historians: our researchers come in all shapes and sizes. The one thing they all have in common is that they are amongst the very best in the world.

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise nearly 90% of our research was rated as being at internationally recognised levels, and every subject was assessed as including world-leading (4*) research.

This outstanding research is the product of the individual academics who make up our Colleges and research centres, and the exceptional teams they lead.

People news

Professor John Dupré, the Director of Egenis at the University of Exeter, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The election as a Fellow is an honour that is bestowed upon members by their peers. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science. Find out more about Professor Dupré's election as an AAAS fellow.

Professor David Stephenson from the Mathematics Research Institute has been elected to become a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea. The Academia Europea was founded in 1988 as an international, non-governmental association of individual scientists and scholars from all disciplines, who are experts and leaders in their own subject areas as recognised by their peers. Find out more about Professor Stephenson's election to Academia Europaea.

The highest prize for physics in France, the Prix Jean Ricard, has been awarded to Professor Gilles Chabrier. Professor Chabrier is part of the University's Astrophysics Group. Find out more about the Prix Jean Ricard.

Dr Ceri Lewis, one of our bioscientists, was recently on the other side of the globe, investigating the effects of carbon dioxide on the world's oceans as part of the Catlin Arctic Survey. Find out more about Dr Lewis' Arctic research.

One of our leading historians, Professor Richard Overy, has recently overseen publication of the latest volume of The Times Complete History of the World. Find out more about Professor Overy's editorship.

Professor Isabelle Baraffe, theme leader for Extrasolar planets research, has been awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.

Professor Anthony King, of the department of Sociology and Philosophy, gave the prestigous annual Chatham House Defence Lecture in September 2010, in which he commented on the Sangin handover in Afghanistan. Find out more about Professor King's lecture.

Dr Michael Cant, a Royal Society Research Fellow in Biosciences, has been helping the BBC film a documentary series which follows a family of banded mongoose at his study site in Uganda. Find out more about Dr Cant's mongoose research.