Professor Michael Davies awarded Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

The scheme provides opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all their teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. It is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. 

Professor Michael Davies, commented: 

I am delighted and honoured to receive this Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, and very grateful to the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust for the opportunity it provides. The Fellowship will give me the time to focus deeply on a new programme of research in machine imaging, combining physics, geometry and statistical reasoning to develop machine learning methods that can learn directly from measurements rather than relying on large sets of ground-truth images. My hope is that this work will open up new ways of discovering hidden structure in scientific and medical data, from electron microscopy to complex physical systems, while strengthening Edinburgh’s position at the interface of computational imaging and AI.

Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: 

At the Leverhulme Trust, we are deeply committed to supporting bold, curiosity-driven research, and this grant exemplifies that mission. We are proud to support the exceptional researchers in this cohort. The opportunity to take some time away from teaching and administrative work creates space for ambitious, blue-skies thinking that can lead to fresh perspectives and unexpected insights. It is always a pleasure to see what can flourish when talented scholars are given the chance to focus fully on their research.

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. 

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