Leaders in fields from chemistry to cancer research are among the Cambridge academics recognised in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
We extend our congratulations to all those honoured for their outstanding achievements.
Professor Grey has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to science.
Professor Grey, from the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry and Pembroke College, pioneered the optimisation of batteries with the help of NMR spectroscopy.
She is, along with Dr Sai Shivareddy, co-founder of Nyobolt, pioneering a new class of battery technology that achieves record-breaking ultra-fast charging and supports the transition to a green, sustainable future.
Stephen Young, Emeritus Professor in the Information Engineering Division and Fellow of Emmanuel College, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to software engineering.
Professor Young’s research interests lie in the area of spoken language systems, including speech recognition, speech synthesis and dialogue management.
Professor Young has been involved in a number of successful Cambridge spin-outs, including Entropic, Phonetic Arts and VocalIQ, and has helped many more as a valued member of the Cambridge Enterprise Investment Committee.
Dr Raghib Ali, a Senior Clinical Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, has been awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and to the COVID-19 response.
Dr Ali took leave from his university work and volunteered to return, unpaid, to frontline NHS duties – both at his local hospital and the newly formed Nightingale hospitals. He was appointed as an Independent Expert Adviser on COVID-19 and ethnicity to the UK government in October 2020.
Dr Jardine-Wright has received an OBE for services to education. She is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Physics, Fellow of Churchill College, and co-founder of Isaac Physics, an online platform that offers support and activities in physics problem solving to teachers and students.
Dr Adrian Weller, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering and researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to digital innovation.
Professor Simon Peyton Jones, a Distinguished Honorary Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, has received an OBE for services to education and to computer science. He is Chair of Computing At School and the National Centre for Computing Education.