The 2025 LMS prize winners were announced at the Society Meeting on Friday 4 July 2025. The LMS congratulates all prize winners for their continued contributions to mathematics.
Professor Nigel Hitchin FRS of the University of Oxford was awarded the De Morgan Medal for his deep contributions to differential geometry, bridging mathematics and theoretical physics, for opening many new avenues of research, and for his service to the mathematical community. Read the full citation.
Professor Leonid Pastur of King’s College London and the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize for his seminal work in mathematical physics, which has been of foundational importance in spectral theory, the theory of disordered systems, and in random matrix theory and its applications. Read the full citation.
Professor Helen Byrne of the University of Oxford was awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship for her profound contributions using mathematical, computational and statistical modelling to understand the mechanisms that drive tumour growth, their escape from immune system control, and response to treatment. Read the full citation.
Professors Adrien Brochier (University of Paris, France) and David Jordan (University of Edinburgh) were awarded the Berwick Prize for their foundational paper ‘Integrating quantum groups over surfaces’, published in the Journal of Topology in 2018. Read the full citation.
Dr Henna Koivusalo of the University of Bristol was awarded the Anne Bennett Prize for her work on cut-and-project sets, dynamical systems and fractals and her dedication to the advancement of women in mathematics. Read the full citation.
Professor Tom Hutchcroft of the California Institute of Technology, USA, was awarded a Whitehead Prize for solving numerous fundamental problems in several areas of probability theory with deep creativity and ingenuity. Read the full citation.
Dr Richard Montgomery of the University of Warwick was awarded a Whitehead Prize for his outstanding work on the absorption method, and on sublinear expanders, in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics. Read the full citation.
Professor Vidit Nanda of the University of Oxford was awarded a Whitehead Prize for his outstanding contributions at the intersection of geometry, topology, and data science, and for significantly advancing the field through pioneering theoretical developments. Read the full citation.
Professor Evgeny Shinder of the University of Sheffield was awarded a Whitehead Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to algebraic geometry, in particular to rationality problems and to derived categories. Read the full citation.
Professor Perla Sousi of the University of Cambridge was awarded a Whitehead prize for her innovative contributions to the study of mixing and cutoff phenomena for Markov chains; to the study of random walks and Brownian motion in fixed and changing environments; and to the development of the potential theory of branching random walks on d-dimensional lattices. Read the full citation.
Professor Ewelina Zatorska of the University of Warwick was awarded a Whitehead Prize for her deep and lasting contributions to the mathematical theory of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations and other nonlinear partial differential equations. Read the full citation.