New Royal Society Fellows for 2010

Four researchers from the University of Oxford have been elected as new Fellows of the Royal Society. The new Fellows are Professor Philip Candelas, Professor Georg Gottlob, Professor Robert C Griffiths and Professor Ian Hickson. Professor Philip Candelas is Rouse-Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, and a Fellow of Wadham College. His research focuses on higher dimensional field theories and superstring theory - an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric 'strings'. He was part of the team which constructed the first potentially viable model of superstring theory in four space-time dimensions. Professor Georg Gottlob is Professor of Computing Science at the Computing Laboratory, a founding member of the Oxford-Man Institute, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. His current research deals with databases, web information processing, artificial intelligence and computational logic.