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Awards and academic achievements

• Fellowship of Learned Society of Wales: Professor Gennady Mishuris was elected as one of the Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales, March 2014.
• Best paper at the First Summer School on Micromechanics: Mr Daniel Peck was awarded the first prize in paper competition at the First Summer School on Micromechanics held in Bezmiechowa, Poland on June 3-13, 2015.
• Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award for the project coordinator: Prof Gennady Mishuris's work has been recognised by the Royal Society with the Wolfson Research Merit Award in November 2016 for his research in area of dynmamic fracture of lattice structures (details here).
• Nomination for The James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize: Mr Daniel Peck is a candidate for the 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize awarded by the editors of Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters in partnership with the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation to a talented PhD researcher published in either of the journals. Mr Peck is being considered for the award with the paper 'Resolution of the threshold fracture energy paradox for solid particle erosion' which he wrote with G.Volkov, G.Mishuris and Yu.Petrov.
• Fellowships of Institute of Advanced Studies at Bologna University: Dr S. Rogosin received one of the two prestigious Fellowships at the University of Bologna. His application has been based on the development of fractional differential method made in the framework of theoretical investigation within the TAMER project, March 2017.(Assignment letter, pdf)
• Prize of the International Research Center for Mathematics & Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS): Prof. Victor A. Eremeyev was awarded the International Prize “Tullio Levi-Civita”. Italy 2018.

Succesful PhD completion

• Mr N.A. Kazarinov successfully defended his PhD thesis “Dynamic peculiarities of breaking of solids caused by quasi-static loading" at St Petersburg State University.

• Mr Piotr Kusmierczyk successfully defended his PhD thesis "Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fractures" at Aberystwyth University.

• Ms N. Selyutina successfully defended her PhD thesis “Failure and plastic deformation of structural materials under shock wave loadings" at St Petersburg State University.
• Mr. M. Ignatiev obtained the MSc degree with his thesis “Structural-temporal characteristics of the electric strength of vacuum and dielectric gaps” at St Petersburg State University.
• Ms F. Chen defended her PhD thesis “Modélisation Micromécanique de Milieux Poreux Hétérogènes et Applications aux Roches Oolithiques” at University of Lorraine, Nancy.
• Mr R. Shmegera successfully defended his PhD thesis “Regularities of structure and properties formation of diamond composites with multicomponent Ni-Sn based binder by intensive electro sintering" at V. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• Ms N. Bic successfully defended her PhD thesis “Mathematical modeling of the scattering of the sound fields on a multilayer and elastic shells" at Belarusian State University.

• Ms Daria Andreeva successfully defended her PhD thesis "Mathematical and numerical modelling of thin nonlinear curvilinear interphases in composite materials" at Aberystwyth University.
• Mr Daniel Peck successfully defended his PhD thesis "Axisymmetric problems involving fractures with moving boundaries" at Aberystwyth University.
• Ms Kashtanova S.V. successfully defended her PhD thesis "Deformation and stability of plates and shells with nanoscale thickness" at St Petersburg State University.
• Ms Broseghini Marica successfully defended her PhD thesis "Modelling of high-energy grinding processes" at the University of Trento.

• Ms Marina Volkova planned to defended her PhD thesis at St Petersburg State University.

• Mr Pavlos Livasov planned to defended his PhD thesis at Aberystwyth University.