This prestigious award sees nearly 90 outstanding researchers - all exceptional in their respective fields - being elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society for 2024. Those awarded are recognised for their invaluable contributions to science, spanning across industry and academia as well as from wider society and a range of countries.
Notably, 30% of the Fellowship intake this year are women, which offers encouragement to upcoming female researchers, as well as providing new scientists with valuable role models.
Daniela Kühn is the Mason Professor of Mathematics at University of Birmingham. Her research interests are Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics. She has received several research grants from both EPSRC and from Europe, including an ERC Starting Grant, an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship and an ERC Advanced grant. Daniela was awarded the European Prize in Combinatorics in 2003, the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2014 and the Fulkerson Prize in 2021. Further recognition for her research includes an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014 and an invited lecture at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2021.
Professor Kühn is a prolific researcher with publications covering topics such as combinatorics, Extremal and Probabilistic Graph Theory, Dirac hypergraphs, designs via iterative absorption, path decompositions of tournaments and resolution of the Oberwolfach problem.
