Carola Schönlieb, the CMIH director, and CMIH investigator Anders Hansen, were recently awarded 2 of the five prestigious 2017 Philip Leverhulme Prizes.

The Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. Up to 30 awards are given annually across a range of academic disciplines, including Mathematics and Statistics

Philip Leverhulme Prizes have been offered since 2001 in commemoration of the contribution to the work of the Trust made by Philip Leverhulme, the Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of the Trust.

Carola Schönlieb received her award for her work on Deep inversion – towards adaptive physical inversion models in imaging,  Carola works on the algorithms which make it possible to extract information reliably and efficiently from imaging data

More information on the work at the heart of this award can be found at https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/awards-made/awards-focus/deep-inversion-%E2%80%93-towards-adaptive-physical-inversion-models-imaging