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Celebrating the achievements and accolades of Trinity students and Fellows in 2025.
HONOURS & AWARDS
Professor Dame Sally Davies was awarded The Physiological Society’s Presidential Medal and gave the President’s Annual Lecture.
Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen received the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology.
Professor Debopam Bhattacharya was elected to the Econometric Society.
Professor Marta Zlatic, Professor Judith Driscoll and Professor Jason Miller were elected to the Royal Society.
Professor Valerie Gibson was elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
Professor Gary Gibbons was awarded the 2025 Dirac Medal.
GRANTS
Professor Ewa Paluch received a 2025 Synergy Grant from the European Research Council.
Professor Matthew Juniper and Professor Marta Zlatic received Advanced Grants from the European Research Council.
APPOINTMENTS
Dr Emma Claussen joined the Institute for Advanced Study based in Princeton for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald was appointed Head of Oncology at Cambridge.
Professor Catherine Barnard was appointed to the Cambridge Professorship in European Law.
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Tony Zhang received an Arthur Shercliff Tripos Prize.
Tsz Yin Kwok, Tianrun Lan, Shuiyi Gong and Xige Hao from Trinity and Pok Shing Hui from Jesus College, representing Cambridge, won the 2025 UK Physicists’ Tournament
Dido Coley and Lily Kearney were the youngest pair of players to compete in the Lady Milne Trophy, a prestigious Bridge tournament.
Harry Antill and Jesse Tapnack were in the winning Cambridge team for the Varsity football match.
Nat Riches and Downing alumna Natasha Atkinson’s musical theatre ‘1816: The Year Without A Summer’ played to rave reviews at Camden Fringe, London’s Lion and Unicorn and the Corpus Playrooms.
Ziyou Lu, McVey Srirajan and Milosz Matraszek from Trinity and Churchill student Ben Radick beat 46 teams to win the international physics competition, PLANCKS 2025.
First & Third Boat Club celebrated their 200th anniversary in style with blades for W2 in the May Bumps, M1 winning the Fairbairn Cup, while Polly Shorrock competed in Blondie and Isabella Fiske-Harrison coxed the Lightweight Men’s Boat for the 2025 Boat Races. This autumn Zara Bek was in the wining Lightweight crew for the CUBC trials on the Thames.
Emmy Charalambous and Mushtari Saidikova were on the Women’s 2nd & 3rd Rugby Union XV when Cambridge’s Jaguars beat the Oxford Pumas.
Guan Rong Tan and Yee Rei Lim emerged victorious in the final of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer National Law University Delhi International Negotiation Competition.
Nathan Bottomley was in the winning Cambridge Men’s Rugby Team against Oxford.
ANNIVERSARIES
Alumnus AA Milne’s ‘Bear of Very Little Brain’ celebrated his 100th Birthday. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared in print in the Evening Standard on Christmas Eve, 1925.
Alumnus Bill Tutte’s cracking of the Lorenz cipher was celebrated on the 80th anniversary of VE Day in May. The Bletchley Park codebreaker’s achievement is credited with shortening the Second World War.
Former Fellow Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize in Literature 75 years ago in November 1950. A blue plaque honouring the achievements of the philosopher, social critic and political activist was unveiled in the Master’s Lodge.
And some unexpected plusses …
Fresh from his successful musical theatre ‘Einstein’s Violin’, Trinity Fellow Dr Paul Wingfield authenticated an actual violin owned by the scientist, which sold at auction for over £1 million.
The first ‘Arts Week at Trinity’ organised by students offered free performances to the Cambridge University community, networking opportunities and careers events.
Trinity featured on University Challenge twice: a student team captained by Yusuf Khand and an alumni team led by John Lloyd, reunited from their win in the very first alumni Christmas competition in 2011.
If you are a Trinity member with an achievement we have missed, please let us know by emailing [email protected]
Photos: With thanks to Cambridge University, Trinity College, The Royal Society, Brian Harris, Lifted Entertainment/ITV, Nordin Catic, the Engineering Department, Christine Gibbons, MRC-LMB, Row360, English Bridge Union, Owen Wright.