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Tom deserves recognition for going above and beyond to help students in the lab. On top of his own research, including forming collaborations between our lab and other research teams across the country, Tom helps us to efficiently plan our research protocols and makes sure that we are confident with methodologies used. Tom makes sure that we are on top of our mental health and the stresses that come with doing a PhD. He actively makes sure that we are taking enough breaks and plans coffee and lunch catch-ups within the lab group, helping to form a friendly and collaborative environment.

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Sarah is a fantastic member of the geography department, who brings life and energy to everything she does. She is extremely hardworking and a brilliant post-doc, who goes above and beyond for her colleagues and friends. She organises group activities such as ICERs Modelling and GECRN sessions, which are incredibly valuable to both PhD students and staff. Thank you Sarah!

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Sam is a key member of the research group with exceptional research skills that he always seem to be happy to pass onto PhD students! Sam also is brilliant at keeping the labs maintained and knowing either how to fix something or who to talk to get it fixed

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He was a very good colleague and supervisor. He was always friendly and patient, even when I had many difficulties and it required a lot of effort to help. He has taught me good scientific behavior and has given me all the necessary details and tips about the methodology. He has never hesitated to point out anything if it would benefit me. He has given me a lot of attention and all time spent with him was valuable.

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Xue is a fantastic post-doc in our group. She has demonstrated know-hows of various softwares in our group meetings and given one-to-one training to us. She has always been a very supportive group member. When I was unwell, she made sure to travel alongside me and checked with me from time to time - if I am well and safe. I will not forget this kind gesture of hers and her sisterly support as always. With her profound knowledge, skills and helpful nature, she has been an asset to our group. I wish her the best for her bright career.

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Victoria has put in a huge effort over the past 6 months, not only working on her own project, but also setting up the lab, establishing new techniques and making sure everything runs super smoothly. Thanks Victoria for all your hard work and enthusiasm!

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Thank you for joining the team when you had so much else on, sharing your expertise and insights, and continued commitment to the project. Yuhua is a star!

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Tom has been super helpful in getting our projects up and running quickly and effectively. He's lent his technical and practical expertise to kick-start our knowledge and keep us achieve our early gaols in our PhDs. In addition to that, he's also given us great advice in how to structure our projects and face any issues we may encounter.

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Toby has consistently produced high quality data during his PhD and postdoc and has contributed to some high impact papers. He collaborates effectively with a variety of individuals and projects across the world and within the faculty and as such is an ideal candidate for an intermediate/senior fellowship position. He also dedicates a significant portion of his time to training and helping new students and is well liked by all across the faculty.

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Tom is a hugely inspiring and hardworking postdoctoral scientist who is the heart of our research group. He brings the rest of the team along with him, and ensures that nobody is left behind and no opportunity is wasted to push the science further. We are lucky to have him here in Sheffield.

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I want to thank Shuangqing (Simon) so much for the vital role he played in training me in the lab. He has been massively helpful, encouraging, and explaining things in a clear constructive manner. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and he is always willing to help and share his knowledge with our colleagues and group members.

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I would like to nominate Thomas because he truly represents everything that academic should be. First, he is brilliant in his work and he is an excellent researcher. On top of that he really cares about people he works with - he gives great advices and solutions to scientific problems, but also that we take care of our health and take time off.

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Thomas is an excellent postdoc and a pleasure to work with. He is both an outstanding scientist and fantastic colleague. His research, and in particular development of novel methods, is pushing boundaries in macroecology/macroevolution. Thomas goes out of his way to help his peers in the lab and more broadly in the "macro" community through mentoring, advising on how to use his (many) R packages, organising ECR focused conferences, and just being a great person to discuss ideas with. He is also a strong advocate of open science and has (gently, but firmly) encouraged the lab towards developing better practice for reproducible research. Thank you Thomas!

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Dr Johnson has accomplished impressive research at the interface between Natural and Social sciences, together with a strong statistical approach. Despite his young academic age, Dr. Johnson  has an impressive record of publication in diverse disciplines such as Behavioural Ecology, Quantitative Biogeography and Socio-economics linked to conservation and biodiversity. Furthermore, Dr Johnson has a strong dedication to lab culture, playing a key role in mentoring PhD students, promoting collaboration and open research practices and helping to run lab meetings on science and career development topics.

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She is really helpful towards my personal development as a first-year PhD student.

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Mahmoud has driven both our academic science and been key to the early success of our startup, Exciting Instruments. His effortless management of PhD and Masters students, alongside his attention to detail and ability to rapidly switch between projects working with multiple collaborators, and his own work - sets him apart as the best postdoc I have had the privilege to work with. Thank you Mahmoud for all you have done and continue to do - your contribution to the success of the Craggs Lab is just huge!

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Yuri understands her area of research well and is able to succinctly communicate ideas and concepts. Furthermore, Yuri is able to apply her knowledge of data science to manufacturing projects, breaking complex topics down into accessible formats. Yuri is great at translating ideas into realisable media such as a publication or project.

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Amazing commitment to research, a highly skilled researcher with a great attitude and always a pleasure to work alongside.

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Samuel is a brilliant colleague, who tends to go extra miles in supporting other researchers within and beyond his research group. Irrespective of his busy schedules, Sam is always available to support early researchers. He was highly supportive during my first trial experiment. Also, his commitment towards the coordination of our group's journal Club is second to none. Therefore, he has my outmost recommendation.

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Dr Webb is an incredibly hard working post doc, dedicating almost all of his time to his work. In addition to always wanting the best from himself, he also helps and supports all other members of the lab, whether that be fellow post docs, PhD students, technicians or students on placements. His hard work, enthusiasm and encouragement make the lab a better place and many people can be grateful for the time and effort he puts in to each person he works with.

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Selina is a great team player. She is very supportive of others in the team, never afraid of learning new techniques and lend a hand when needed. She has set up a number of new techniques and applied them to hers and other projects. She is an explosive combination of determination and sensitivity and I am so grateful and proud to have her in my team!

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Sara has been a real friend and source of support and humour for me during my work with her. Her approach to work life balance and grasp on workers rights are an inspiration.

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He has been awarded EPSRC Fellowship and published high-quality journal papers. He is also actively involved in supervision of PhD and MSc students.

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I want to thank Stephanie for her incredible support for a PhD student (Frane Babarovic) in my lab. Frane (a biologist) has learned a huge amount from working with Stephanie (a physicist) working on the nanostructural properties of feather colour. Her support and mentorship goes way above and beyond, particularly given the largely unexpected collaboration. Thank you Stephanie!

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Sarah has been amazing at mentoring and supporting PhD students and other postdocs in the department. As well as all the informal support she provides, and the many chats about cats, she is the organiser of the ECR group in the department. In her research, Sarah is the leader on modelling British sea level change!

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Sarah always brings joy and laughter to the office and is a great support. She is also a fantastic researcher, and truly an excellent person to work with. She will take the time to help you and explains concepts clearly and shows how deep her understanding is. Alongside this, Sarah also runs an Early Career Researcher network focussed on bringing the ECR community together and teaching important skills for career development. Sarah is a great scientist, and a great friend.

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Always very supportive with work, leads ECR group, always ensure new people are welcomed.

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Stewart's energy and enthusiasm are infectious. His excellence in building, maintaining and growing partnerships with industry makes a huge difference to many research projects and other researchers.

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Stone is the most talented scientist I have ever met. He is a dedicated bench scientist with the ability to pick up new techniques from the literature and translate them into new techniques in our lab. He is highly technically able at molecular biology and imaging - there doesn't seem to be any end to his talents at the bench. As the years go on, he accumulates more wisdom and experience, making him much more valuable. He helps out everyone in the group and helps people get things done around the lab.
He deserves a permanent position in the University and I wish we were able to make one for him.

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For excellent contributions in all areas - research, supervision, collaboration and support for others - that have underpinned success in grant-writing and publications this year.

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I'd like to nominate Shabana Roscoe because she is an extremely sensitive and insightful researcher who has already made an exceptional contribution to our research project in a relatively short period and at a complicated time. Shabana has developed close, ethical and productive relationships with children and their families as part of our in-depth, at home research on the relationship between children's digital play and their subjective well-being. This sort of work is emotionally and physically draining as well as highly skilled, but Shabana has demonstrated huge commitment to making the fieldwork a succes. We feel privileged to have her on the team and have no doubts that she will be an outstanding academic whatever she does next.

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Ryan has been involved with our research group since his individual research project in the final year of his undergrad. He stayed on to do a PhD, following which he successfully obtained a postdoc position working across labs in two different areas. He's an enthusiastic member of the team, always willing to help out students and new group members, while still staying on top of his own workload. I'm particularly nominating him for being so keen to get involved a broad range of additional activities. He's a member of our research hub Executive team, has been leading and developing Outreach activities, and acts as a personal tutor for several of our Departmental students, all of which are greatly appreciated!

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Riyadh is the most helpful person in our research group: Always available, always supportive, always goes the extra mail. Riyadh is someone you can count on. Without him our research group would not work. Thank you Riyadh!

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During the last academic year, I was not able to be in person in the university. Riyadh took the initiative to run the activities of my group, research, teaching and administrative. He did this with the best performance. Outstanding example for a postdoc.

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Raquel has been an asset for the team since she joined. Although this is her first post-doc position, she has immediately embraced her new role not only in leading her research, but also in supervising more junior people, genuinely trying to help them achieve their research goals while keeping the stress level under control. Her active effort in developing leadership skills and questioning her style at such a young stage demonstrates great maturity. I consider myself lucky in witnessing her growth everyday. Keep it up Raquel!

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Ravi is an excellent postdoc, he has been amazing at training me in the lab. He is passionate about his research; very genuine, and always willing to make time to help our colleagues and group members. Incredible dedication, team support, and wider participation and teaching.

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She was really supportive for other junior PhD students, and always available

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Ruth is an exceptionally hard working researcher who always strives to produce work of the highest quality. She often underestimates her expertise, however I hope that this nomination shows her that her effort and dedication does not go unnoticed!

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Thank you for being such a collegiate member of our team and department. I am really appreciative of your efforts (and achievements) both in teaching and research. Your desire not just to want to complete a task, but to make things better for everyone is a breath of fresh air. Here's looking forward to another productive year where we can reap the benefits of the excellent foundations you have laid.

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Rachel has been a fantastic asset to our group. She is a very knowledgeable researcher who has used her expertise to help us all. Also, she immediately took on responsibilities in our labs and has been extremely patient and hard working in helping get our equipment up and running.

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Paul - your patient and diligent attention to supporting several important projects, contributing to team image analysis and driving your own methods development research warrants a massive thanks from me and the team - cheers

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I'd like to say a huge thank you to Pooja who has been instrumental in setting up our new lab. Alongside her own fantastic research, she has been invaluable in getting things up and running, and supporting the training of other researchers in the lab. Thank you Pooja for everything you do!

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I would like to nominate Prashant for his contributions to engineering science and as a mentor to Fellow PDRAs and PhD students. Prashant has made outstanding contribution to developed and application of multiscale material modelling methods to additive manufacturing (AM). His work has generated new ways of studying microstructure evolution during additive manufacture of titanium alloys. In August of this year, he was awarded an international NIST AM-Bench 2022 prize for his work on residual stress prediction in AM. He is also supervising PhD students providing valuable technical and mentoring support. He also has been part of my team's effort to develop relationships with the AMRC modelling team.

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Prashant goes above and beyond in his research, putting a truly vast amount of time into his work on modelling microstructure. In addition, he finds the time to provide advice and guidance to some PhD and Masters students.

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Despite a non Chemical Engineering background, Peter gave an excellent contribution to the project "Reaction Network Analysis of Lithium Ion Battery Thermal Runaway" by conducting high-accuracy density functional theory calculations.

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Osman has had an exceptional research career. He also has an unwavering ability of attracting the interest of prominent individuals from outside Sheffield University to attend internal conferences of which he has co-organised. This has undoubtedly raised the profile of the university and he should be recognised for this.

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For excellent imaging and image analysis support, facilitating the success of several research projects in the lab.

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Naomi is an invaluable member of the Mortiboys lab, in particular the Nanna project team. As a researcher she challenges all of our ideas, encouraging us to think deeply about results and identify possible avenues for further research. She does this while managing a busy schedule, often going the extra mile to ensure the team completes experiments to a high quality under strict time pressures. Naomi has also undertaken many responsibilities outside of the lab, contributing to the wider university community by being an active member of the MDHRSA. She strives to achieve her best and push herself at every opportunity, yet despite this she always has time to offer help and support.

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Naomi has worked extremely hard and juggled many different things, research projects, student supervision and training of others. She is an integral member of the team.

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Neda has been working with our group for the last 2 years or so but it feels like she has always been with us. She is extremely helpful, approachable and down to earth, always willing to listen and incorporate suggestions or provide input and feedback into projects. She has gone out of her way to try and arrange training sessions for other group members and all of her hard work is very much appreciated!

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I would like to thank and give a HUGE shout out to the committee members of the Biosciences PDA for helping me to form an association for postdocs in the newly formed School of Biosciences. They've been fantastic and enthusiastic in organising events for postdocs and the entire School, as well as fostering a postdoc community. I'd like to nominate the committee members: Andrew Plygawko, Anupama Prakash, Besiana Sinanaj, Elsie Place, James King, Lara Pereira Garcia, Leila Abbas, Mona Nazemi, Sam Warrington, Tom Johnson, Tom Sheard.

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She's very involved in her research group and also very eager to help people around her. She also won the best poster award for the Computer Science Away Day.

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Junyan is an absolutely fantastic postdoc. Working on a tricky, interdisiplinary project Junyan manages to balance a range of different methods and approaches to deliver exceptionally high quality work. She is a great team player, and has bought so much to the project, helping to make our collective research better. Junyan's organisational skills are second to none, and she manages to juggle a range of challenging tasks with the highest levels of professionalism. Having the chance to work with her has been an excellent experience and I can't wait to see what she goes onto achieve.

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Martin is the hardest-working person I know and he regularly works very long hours (sometimes even in the middle of the night!) to make sure the code is running for GOTO, the Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer, which is a huge responsibility. On top of this, he is much appreciated by PhD students as a huge support in the Astronomy Group and is always on hand to help. He supervises Master's students, organises the weekly Astronomy seminar and undertakes a huge list of other responsibilities, and he is often even our resident IT support for hybrid seminars. He has a lot on his shoulders and I can't think of anyone more deserving of appreciation! I don't know what the Astronomy Group would do without him.

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I would like to nominate Maria as she consistently proves herself to be an outstanding member of the department. She has provided a lasting contribution to UG, MA and PGR teaching in Journalism Studies, offering guest lectures and workshops on her research specialism, alongside several new modules and innovative forms of assessment. In addition to this, Maria has also demonstrates strong levels of research excellence and innovation. It is a pleasure to work alongside Maria!

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Max has been performing really well and making excellent progress in many direction. This includes many aspects beyond his research work such as supervision of students, training other staff, commercialisation, international collaborations, etc.

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Mahendra was extremely helpful, always with a smile even if he was overwhelmed with deadlines. He was always keen to talk to you about his time in India and his love for cricket. He taught me through every process I would need for lab work and would meet with me regularly to think about what steps we could pursue next. He showed me how fascinating a career in research really is opening my eyes to what could really be achieved both in my writing. Together we wrote a paper to be published to the IJMS Journal entitled "Blends and Composites of Bacterial Cellulose and their Uses in Tissue Engineering Applications", which allowed me to stand out in my doctorate application, so I could continue to research at Sheffield!

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Mona is a stellar postdoc in the lab and has been instrumental in the establishment of the majority of the techniques currently used in the lab. She is definitely the foundation of our lab and the TC queen!

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I would like to send again my appreciation to Max for his patience, help, and guidance throughout the experiments, analysis, and all the work needed for the completion of my PhD as well as his kindness in person. Max really helps me getting support and help on a day to day basis and I thank him for that.

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Mohamed is the ultimate professional and a very committed postdoc who makes the life of a supervisor so much easier - very much appreciated! He not only drives projects forward experimentally but has a growing list of prizes from his presentations at conferences. He engages in all parts of academic life and has invited world class scientists to give research seminars at the University of Sheffield on a number of occasions. He his a valued member of my laboratory and the wider School of Biosciences.

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Chris is the go to person for many things in the research groups and he always seems to be able to make time for people. He's a fantastic researcher and has such a great attitude that he's a pleasure to work with. He's been selflessly passing his skills on with dedicated sessions and has always been happy to answer impromptu questions as well in the office.

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For her contribution to the life of the university.

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Being in a small research group, it was challenging in the first few months to find a peer group to support each other whilst we were still reeling from the pandemic. Mohammed and I are in the same research group, and it has been a great journey so far. He has provided me with support and guidance throughout. He has helped me overcome a few challenges, and taught me new skills - for example he taught me to use one of the robot arms in the lab which I then used for my project. He has also taught me to use Ubuntu and ROS.
I have witnessed him supervising some masters students for their projects, and he has given it his all to support them and their projects.

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Lara is a fantastic postdoc who always goes above and beyond! Lara started just over a year ago and there have been some big transitions in that time, including a change in primary supervisor.. but Lara has taken everything in her stride. She is also great at Science! and often brings new ideas and insights to the work, in addition to being very hardworking, organised, and involved with the department/group. Always willing to help out with the students, and is also a very nice person to work with! thanks!!

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For leading an awesome research program and bringing new, exciting intellectual ideas to the table. For being a supportive, good colleague, who offers support and insight- a real research leader. For being always ahead in terms of delivery and making the team's work a lot easier. For being wonderful.

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Dr Westman's research and work ethos is really inspiring, and she supports other female academics in a way that I aspire to. She manages the balance of being collegiate, critical and caring, whilst at the same time producing world leading research in political science.

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Lucy hasn't been here for very long but has done a lot of amazing work and has been incredibly helpful and is always willing to help. She provides great advice, company and is selfless and we always have a laugh with her.

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Thanks Laura for your monumental efforts coordinating the image analysis of the several COVID lung imaging studies we've undertaken with collaborators round the UK - much appreciated by all.

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I would like to nominate Laura for their constant support and dedication to the ISL group: forever making sure the labs are in tip-top shape, she is always friendly and affable, will go above and beyond to support your work and over all: she is an exceptional scientist helping lead world-class research.

On a personal note, Laura has been a core support with my Master's project and getting safely up and running with my PhD work, as she has done for many others - and in whatever little way, I thought it necessary to show this appreciation here. Thank you Laura!

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Leon is very passionate about his research in understanding the role of trader's organisation in shaping the life of public market in Mexico City. In the current postdoctoral programme, he is continuing his doctoral research to understand the micro-politics in the making of public market in the city. He is well-aware of his positionalities as someone who was born in the city and as a researcher who studies marginalised communities with ethical stance that flows through it. This nomination is also based on my observation that he is a keen listener and genuine person who is open to discussion and new ideas, that is definitely a positive trait as a researcher.

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Le Qin has made an excellent start on her project over her first 6 months in Sheffield, despite significant challenges.

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Despite being extremely busy on a multi-collaborator European project, Kenneth has always taken time to give PhD students in the group support and feedback. He has voluntarily supervised several undergraduate and Masters dissertation projects, as well as summer research projects and has dedicated his time to supporting those students get the most out of their work, helping them when they become stuck and giving them feedback and guidance on their work. He has also somehow found the time to become actively involved in ED&I activities in our department.

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Kate is an outstanding Post Doc who spends so much of her spare time ensuring that every student in our research group has the support needed. Regularly does she step up to the plate to lead the group when our supervisor is not around. Kate manages the lab and almost always gets 100% marks on safety. The dedication they show in ensuring both Masters and PhD students get support and feedback on dissertations and theses respectively is above and beyond the expectation. Kate has been at Sheffield for a few years now and has worked with many Masters and PhD students in her time here, Kate deserves all the recognition in the world and is one of, if not THE, most exceptional Post Docs in the department of Chemical Engineering.

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Kat is an exceptional PDRA! Kat is able to balance writing world leading publications, grant writing, lab work, fieldwork, PhD supervision and much more! Kat has a brilliant work ethic and always goes above and beyond. She is a joy to work with – thank you Kat!

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Kat enables and delivers a range of world leading research, and is still always willing to lead and organize all the extras that help to make a positive research community. Thank you.

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Because they are a shining beacon, offering moral support and physical help with laboratory analysis and preparation during intense sampling regimes. You keep me sane! So thank you!

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Kenneth has been successfully working on two very demanding projects, one sponsored by EDF Energy and one by EU H2020. He has taken the lead on both projects, directly interacting with the sponsors and partners with minimum direction, and has received very positive feedback for both projects.

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I would like to nominate Jo Sharpe, a Postdoc in our lab in the DRN cluster in the School of Biosciences. Jo came to our lab from a completely different field and has put an impressive amount of effort into getting to know this new area. She is an enthusiastic and driven member of the team and spends a lot of time helping and others through mentoring and outreach activities. Plus she makes fantastic cakes.

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Thank you for your unwavering enthusiasm; Jo is so supportive to all team members, finds solutions and her positive attitude helps drive the project forward. She also brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to influence and shape the research.

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He is a KTP associate working on beamforming optimisation for massive MIMO communication systems. He has done very well and both the company and the academic supervisors are very happy with his outstanding performance.

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Jess is an invaluable member of the group and in our wider shared lab. Her knowledge, expertise, and generosity with her time is critical to the smooth running of the lab. Alongside her own fantastic research she goes above and beyond to support people in their research. Thanks Jess for everything you do!

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Jenny is both an excellent researcher (evidenced by the national media interest in her work) but also a fabulous colleague. She goes above and beyond consistently to contribute towards the research and teaching life of our department. She is very organised, very focused and is a pleasure to work with. Her research work is novel, exciting, relevant and important politically. She also communicates her findings very clearly and produces both conceptually powerful analyses as well as policy relevant insights. She provides leadership already to other researchers within and beyond her field. Our department is very fortunate to have her working with us.

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Jaqui consistently goes over and above what is required for her job, taking on levels of responsibility beyond what would be expected from her grade. She is thoughtful, proactive and solution-focussed when dealing with the various curveballs that the research projects throw up. She is a collegiate member of staff, contributing to teaching and dissertation supervision, despite being on a research only contract. Importantly, she is also a supportive and friendly colleague and a pleasure to work with.

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Their crazy hard work keeping the lab going is often a thankless task from us PhD researchers, so its definitely time some appreciation was shown for all you do. Thanks for the chats and always being available to ask random dumb questions to.

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Many thanks James for helping me establish my new research group over the last 3 years. Moving from industry to academia has been very challenging. You have been a great asset with your technical leadership and training PhD students in a variety of research methods. Foundations are set and looking forward to working with you over the next 12 months to develop a pipeline of outputs and new proposals.

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He is an amazing person with excellent scientific research ability !

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Not only is Jack an outstanding early career researcher but he is also the the responsible person for a research laboratory. Jack has gone well beyond just managing the H&S in the laboratory having provided education and training to colleagues including the department’s safety team which has helped to inform best practice in the department. Jack’s dedication, meticulous approach and communication skills beneficially influenced the production H&S rules and understanding tailored to the Electrical Machines and Drives (EMD) group and expedited access to facilities.

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Josh is very supportive to students across a variety of projects. He always makes time to help students in the lab, proofread applications and reports and will always answer questions and help us to understand why something happens. He goes above and beyond his job to make sure we are okay, we know how to best manage our projects and help in any way he can.  There’s no measure that he falls short of with regards to his scientific rigour, support of those around him and generally being a great person to have around the lab/office.

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Josh is a really great person to have in the lab, he always has time to share his knowledge with myself and others in the lab and always goes that extra mile when offering help. Working with post-docs like Josh really helps lighten the burden of being technical support.

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Dr. Jing-Yi Jeng is a brilliant researcher and an excellent luminary. Not only does she work incredibly hard to further the field of hearing research, but also finds the time to help other members of the lab, including PhD students like me. She has taught me so much about immunostaining and super-resolution microscopy, as well as about being a better researcher itself. As a woman of colour in a traditional STEM field, Dr. Jeng has stood as an example of excellence for all those who may come after. With a strong publishing record and a fierce skillset, Dr. Jeng is, in this PhD student's humble opinion, nothing less than one of the finest researchers in the field of sensory neuroscience, if not, the field of biological sciences itself.

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Ginny is a brilliant colleague and a constant source of inspiration for members of our lab. She is always kind, approachable and willing to help everyone, from students to PIs. I cannot think of a more deserving postdoc to receive a nomination for her exceptional contributions.

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Justin is an amazing person to work with, always happy to help and share his knowledge and expertise. I'm very grateful for him taking time out of his busy schedule to help me overcome a steep learning curve and progress with my project. Thank you for your help and support, Justin!

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Igor has been a truly outstanding post-doc in my research group, both in his technical ability and in his mentorship of students (undergraduates, masters, and PhD). Igor's sponsored project has been incredibly challenging both experimentally and in the theoretical model development required for data analysis. Igor has not shied away from the challenge, in fact he has embraced it! He has engaged with other project partners to bring the work further depth through these collaborations. Igor is an enthusiastic and engaged mentor to students, he has trained them to a high level to run experimental techniques, understand the fundamentals, and conduct analysis. He is patient and supportive, and positive about encouraging their ideas.

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Harriet is a social psychologist, an ECR with a recent lectureship appointment (July 2022) and was a PDRA for some years prior to this. In this postdoc capacity, she demonstrated an innate ability to engage and share her knowledge with colleagues across the disciplines. She does so in a hugely enthusiastic and committed manner, that is contagious and leads to great impactful research outputs. Harriet sees solutions, where others see problems. Harriet has, as a postdoc, expertly managed and made important contributions to recent large UKRI funded projects: The PRIF Plastics: Redefining Single Use (EP/S025278/1) and Many Happy Returns (EP/S025278/1) and a number of high impact publications.

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Virginia has moved seamlessly from being an excellent PhD student (who passed her viva with no corrections) to a committed, thorough and rigorous post doctorate researcher. She has immediately stepped into the Mesothelioma UK Research Center Team, and working to a high standard. She is also an excellent ambassador for the Centre and wider Mesothelioma community, having presented her work at national and international conferences. She has also had significant success with publications. She is a wonderful colleague who brings positivity and support to her colleagues

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Hita has overcome all kinds of personal difficulties to become an amazing researcher, always willing to take risks and who invariably brings new ideas to the table. It is always refreshing to sit with Hita, as she shares her international connections, her long-term view on the research field, and her insights from the recent literature she has read. One never stops learning while being with Hita.

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He works in an excellent and worldwide-recognized team to develop new therapies for prostate cancer, his team is achieving great success all the way especially recently. He is also very ambitious and willing to always be in the frontiers of medical discoveries.

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Fung has come to the end of his 6 years in the polaris research group in IICD. He has driven a great programme of research and added to the team. During COVID lockdowns he mucked in and helped with running the MRI facility operations when we had staff shortages - all round team player , top scientist and valued colleague - will be missed by all. Good luck with the fellowship back home in NZ.

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Georgia has made a significant contribution to training and giving guidance to several PGR students both in my research group and those closely associated with the group. She has also helped support 16 MSc Translational Oncology students in laboratory practical sessions. Her support to all these students has been invaluable to me, and she has gone above and beyond her job description. Therefore, I would like to thank her for her commitment to the group and for being a true team player. She is always motivated and genuinely interested in a wide variety of research projects and in the future would make a great independent researcher.

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Guru is the life and soul of our research group - always with his trademark smile, keeping the PhD students going and reigning in the more irritating and irritable postdocs, we would not be able to function without him.