Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellows 2025

The Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust have announced the appointment of seven new Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellows.

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the scheme seeks to provide opportunities for experienced academic researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all their teaching and administrative duties during that period. Fellowships cover all areas of the life and physical sciences, including engineering, but excluding clinical medicine.

The awardees are as follows (in alphabetical order):

Professor Gert Aarts
Swansea University
Learning (from) Lattice Field Theory

Professor Francesca Di Lodovico
King's College London
Neutrinos & AI for matter-antimatter discovery by the end of the decade

Professor Ana Domingos
University of Oxford
Mapping Sympathetic Neural Networks

Dr Garry Laverty
Queen's University Belfast
Peptide-like hydrogels as a long-acting injectable drug delivery strategy for the prevention of tuberculosis

Dr Samantha Patrick
University of Liverpool
The consequences of using proxy cues for reproduction: maximising information or taking a risk?

Professor Sandra Piazolo
University of Leeds
Unravelling Slow Earthquakes: The next big step in understanding Earth’s deformation

Professor Vincent Savolainen
Imperial College London
Sociosexual Diversity in Macaque Society