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Congratulations to our winners for 2025!

Congratulations to our winners and all our shortlisted entrants. Two prizes were awarded by our panel of judges and one prize as a result of a vote by Imperial staff and students.

Judges’ Choice awards:

PhD student category (£200): Anna Curran from the Department of Mathematics
Research staff category (£200): Dr Adriana Ford from the Department of Life Sciences

People’s Choice award:

Prize worth (£150): Chandra Sekhar Sale from the Department of Chemistry

You can view a slideshow of the winners and all shortlisted images below.

Alternatively, you can view each of the shortlisted images and their associated captions in this PDF: FoNS Research Image Competition 2025

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WINNER PhD student category

Anna Curran - Liquid Gold

WINNER research staff category

Dr Adriana Ford - Purposeful Flames

WINNER people's choice award

Chandra Sekhar Sale - The nano-micro Shard

Abha Joglekar - Weaving circularity

Aileen Cooney - Lipid assemblies resemble microscopic moons

Alex Kingston - Brain in a Dish: Cerebral Organoid Rosette

Arnad Majumdar - Green bubbles

Barry Liu - Decoding Influenza C Virus

Catalina Estrada Montes - One angry bird

Claudia Contini - Synthetic Cell Pop Art

Esme Fan - Bone Marrow's Beating Heart

Floriane Tissot - Whispers of the Bone Marrow

Harsh Rathee - Quantum Coolness

Katarina Piponi - Curiosity Unites Us

Matthew Clark - Tracing Trees

Pei-Shi Yen - Chamber of Secrets

Congratulations to the winners for 2024!

Congratulations to our winners and all our shortlisted students. Two prizes were awarded by our panel of judges and one prize as a result of a vote by Imperial staff and students:

Judges' Choice awards

Best PhD student image prize worth £250: Zoyia Kamora from Department of Chemistry
Best Postdoc image prize worth £250: Christopher Hutchinson from Department of Life Sciences

People's Choice award

Prize worth £150: Ruby Morel from Department of Chemistry

You can view the winners and other shortlisted images below.

Conservation conversation by Ben Chapple (CEP)

Crystals of the light sensitive protein “Cl-rsEGFP2” by Christopher Hutchison (Life Sciences)

On the beach by Hinkley Point by Daniel Mehlig (CEP)

It Isn't All Black and White by Henry Grub (CEP)

Illuminating the soul of hollow-core fibres by Joseph Broughton (Physics)

Immune cells to the rescue by Julia Sanchez Garrido (Life Sciences)

Bracing for change by Matthew Clark

Honey bee brood development under stress by Monika Yordanova

Making Waves by Ruby Morel (Chemistry)

Diverging Thoughts on Convergence Theory by Shavindra Jayasekera (Maths)

Light at the Crossroad by Thomas Walker (Physics)

Single-Walled Nanotubes at Micron Scale by Zoyia Kamora (Chemistry)

Congratulations to the winners for 2023!

Congratulations to our winners and all our shortlisted students. Two prizes were awarded by our panel of judges and one prize as a result of a vote by Imperial staff and students: