Celebrating our community: awards and honours In this section we celebrate success and recognise colleagues, partners and members of the community who have received prestigious grants, awards and honours in recent months.
SKAO Council Chair Dr Catherine Cesarsky has been awarded the Centennial Medal by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her alma mater. The medal recognises alumni whose contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society have made a fundamental and lasting impact. The citation reads: “Catherine Cesarsky’s trailblazing achievements in astronomy are matched only by her leadership in some of the highest-ranking scientific positions in Europe.”
Prof. Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and head of its Radio Astronomy/Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) department, has received the European Astronomical Society’s prestigious Tycho Brahe Medal for major advances of VLBI that led to the first images of the shadows of the black holes in the galaxy Messier 87 and in our own galactic centre.
Prof. Matthew Bailes, Prof. Duncan Lorimer and Prof. Maura McLaughlin, members of the SKAO’s Pulsar Science Working Group, have been jointly awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy for the discovery of fast radio bursts, detailed in a seminal research paper published in 2007.
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