Previous winners
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
WINNER of the Best Image Prize:
Nature's Cleanser by Anna Curran (Maths)
RUNNER-UP Image Prize:
Magnetic River Delta by Holly Holder (Physics)
WINNER People's Choice Award:
Powering the Future by Theo Hembury (Life Sciences)
SHORTLISTED:
Lord of the (Antibiotic Resistance) Rings, by Himani Amin (Life Sciences)
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Bringing the Cosmos to Earth: Recreating Astrophysical Shocks in the Lab, by Stefano Merlini (Physics)
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Laser beams for cooling atoms, by Elizabeth Pasatembou (Physics)
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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)
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Carbon nanotube dispersion in ionic liquid, by Zoyia Kamora (Chemistry)
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Shedding light on cell division of the main malaria vector, by Matteo Vitale (Life Sciences)
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Light and Matter, by Sumer Jaitly (Physics)
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FINESSE'd, by Sanjeevani Panditharatne (Physics)