Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award

The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award was an award made by the Royal Society from 2000 to 2020.

It was administered by the Royal Society and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK Office of Science and Technology, to provide universities "with additional financial support to attract key researchers to this country or to retain those who might seek to gain higher salaries elsewhere." to tackle the brain drain. They were given in four annual rounds, with up to seven awards per round.

In 2020 the scheme was replaced by the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship, described by the Royal Society as providing long-term flexible funding for senior career researchers recruited or retained to a UK university or research institution in fields identified as a strategic priority for the host department or organisation.

Recipients
Winners of this award (see Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders) award included:


 * Sue Black
 * Samuel L. Braunstein
 * Martin Bridson (2012)
 * Michael Bronstein (2018)
 * Peter Buneman
 * Michael Cant (2015)
 * José A. Carrillo (2012)
 * Ken Carslaw
 * Marianna Csörnyei
 * Candace Currie (2015)
 * Nicholas Dale (2015)
 * Roger Davies
 * René de Borst
 * Nora de Leeuw
 * Jonathan Essex
 * Ernesto Estrada
 * Wenfei Fan
 * Michael Farber (2004)
 * Andrea C. Ferrari
 * Philip A. Gale (2013)
 * Matthew Gaunt (2015)
 * Alain Goriely (2010)
 * Georg Gottlob
 * Andrew Granville (2015)
 * Peter Green
 * Ruth Gregory
 * Martin Hairer
 * Edwin Hancock
 * Mark Handley
 * Nicholas Higham
 * Simone Hochgreb (2003)
 * Saiful Islam (2013)
 * Brad Karp
 * Tara Keck
 * Rebecca Kilner (2015)
 * Daniela Kuhn (2015)
 * Ari Laptev
 * Tim Lenton
 * Malcolm Levitt
 * Stephan Lewandowsky
 * Leonid Libkin
 * Jon Lloyd (microbiologist) (2015)
 * Andy Mackenzie
 * Barbara Maher (2006-2012)
 * Vladimir Markovic
 * Robin May (2015)
 * Paul Milewski
 * E.J. Milner-Gulland
 * Tim Minshull (2015)
 * André Neves
 * Peter O'Hearn
 * William Lionheart (2015)
 * Fabrice Pierron
 * Alistair Pike
 * Gordon Plotkin
 * Adrian Podoleanu (2015)
 * Fernando Quevedo (2003)
 * David Richardson
 * Gareth Roberts (2015)
 * Alexander Ruban (2015)
 * Daniela Schmidt (2015)
 * Steven H. Simon
 * Nigel Smart
 * John Smillie (2015)
 * Stefan Söldner-Rembold (2013)
 * John Speakman
 * David Stephenson (2015)
 * Kate Storey (2015)
 * Andrew Taylor (2015)
 * Françoise Tisseur (2014)
 * Richard Thomas
 * Vlatko Vedral (2007)
 * Benjamin Willcox (2015)
 * Richard Winpenny (2009)
 * Philip J. Withers (2002)
 * Tim Wright (2015)
 * Ziheng Yang
 * Xin Yao (2012)
 * Nikolay I. Zheludev
 * Florian Markowetz (2017)