Princess Royal Silver Medal

The Princess Royal Silver Medal, formerly the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal or "the Silver Medal", was established in 1994 by the Royal Academy of Engineering (the Academy or RAEng) to recognise outstanding and direct personal achievements and contributions to UK engineering for mid-career engineers.[1]

The award was renamed when Princess Anne agreed to have it named in her honour, in view of her lifelong advocacy of engineering and as the Royal Fellow of the Academy. She had previously spoken of wanting to be an engineer as her career choice, in the absence of her royal duties.[2][3]

Background

Nominations open in early autumn with up to four medals a year awarded to outstanding engineers in their field with less than 22 years of full-time years of work in their career, so typically engineers who are in early to mid-career.[4][5] Nominees must show how their contributions further the Academy's strategic goals including: a sustainable and innovative economy, improving lives with technology or supporting an engineering community fit for the future.[4] Most crucially, nominees must demonstrate the commercial success and the overall positive impact of their work.[4][5]

The first recipients of the award in 1995 were Peter Head CBE FREng, Director, G. Maunsell and Partners and Professor Martin Sweeting OBE FREng, Managing Director and CEO, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd; Professor of Satellite Engineering, University of Surrey.[6]

Winners

YearRecipient(s)Contribution
2026 Dr. Liucheng Guo Co-founder TG0: AI material/tactile sensing technology
2025Alex KendallCo-founder of Wayve; deep learning for autonomous vehicles
2025Themis ProdromakisWork on memristors
2024Katerina SprangerFounder of Oxford Heartbeat
2024Daniel JamiesonFounder of Biorelate
2024Orr YarkoniBiological textile dyeing
2024Jason HallettSustainable chemical processes
2023Saritha ArunkumarIBM security research
2023Joel Gibbard and Samantha PayneCo-founders of Open Bionics
2023James RobertsNeonatal incubator design
2022Heba BevanFounder of UtterBerry
2022Daniel Brett and Paul ShearingElectrochemical Innovation Lab, UCL
2022Oliver PaytonAtomic force microscopy
2022Atif SyedElectronic skin; founder of Wootzano
2021Tom CarterUltrasound haptics; CTO of Ultraleap
2021Andrew LynnFounder of Fluidic Analytics
2021Sithamparanathan SabesanFounder of PervasID
2020Marko BacicRolls-Royce engine safety
2020Michael BronsteinGraph deep learning
2020Esther Rodriguez-VillegasLow-power wearable devices
2020Jamie ShottonMachine learning for Microsoft Kinect
2019Daniel ElfordAcoustic metamaterials; CTO of Sonobex
2019Jennifer GriffithsFounder of Snaptech
2019Paul NewmanAutonomous vehicle algorithms; founder of Oxbotica
2017Billy BoyleBreath-biomarker diagnostics; CEO of Owlstone Medical
2017Rob Bishop and Zehan WangFounders of Magic Pony Technology
2017Constantin CoussiosOrgan preservation
2017David SilverReinforcement learning; DeepMind
2016Demis HassabisCo-founder and CEO of DeepMind

References

  1. ↑ "Princess Royal Silver Medal". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Academy names major engineering award in honour of HRH The Princess Royal". Royal Academy of Engineering. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  3. ↑ Shacklock, Emma (14 August 2024). "Princess Anne's practical alternative career choice if she hadn't been born royal might just surprise you". Woman & Home. Bath: Future plc. Archived from the original on 11 May 2026. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 "Nomination guidance for the Princess Royal Silver Medal". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Princess Royal Silver Medals honour engineering innovators". The Engineer. London. 30 June 2026. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Previous winners of the Princess Royal Silver Medal". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
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