Annual Prizewinners’ Dinner 2025
27 October 2025
The Cavendish Laboratory’s Annual Prizewinner’s Dinner took place on 24 October 2025. Undergraduate Prize Winners, alongside Cavendish academics, celebrated their achievements and enjoyed a formal dinner at the Cavendish Café of the Ray Dolby Centre. This was the first time the annual event was hosted in the Cavendish Laboratory’s new home – the Ray Dolby Centre, which opened earlier this year.
The dinner was hosted by Professor Ulrich Schneider, Director of Undergraduate Education, and had two special guests in attendance: Professor Joseph Thywissen (Department of Physics, University of Toronto) – currently on sabbatical at the Cavendish, hosted by Professor Zoran Hadzibabic – and Dr Lucas Le Nagard, a fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Both guests were warmly welcomed by Professor Schneider in his after-dinner speech.
The evening concluded with Professor Schneider presenting prize certificates to the winners. These awards recognise outstanding achievement in physics across all undergraduate years, from excellence in theory, experiment, and computation to exceptional research reviews and overall academic performance.
Image: Prizewinners 2025, from left to right, Joshua Wu, Long Hei Kwan, Yotam Margoninski Morrag, Max Lu, Owen Hunter, Zebedee Summerfield, Dr Anton Souslov, Alba Burgos Mondejar, Prof Ulrich Schneider, Louis Kirkpatrick, Francesca Di Cecio, Prof Chiara Ciccarelli, Jacob Mittoo, Eero Jaaskelainen
It was a night of celebration and recognition of promising future scientists. Below are more details of the current students and recent graduates who won the awards –
| Yotam Margoninski-Morrag, Queens’ College | Cavendish Part IA Prize for 1st year Physics |
| Max Lu, Trinity Hall College | Cavendish Part IA Practical Prize for 1st year Physics |
| Jacob Mittoo, Caius College | Cavendish Part IB A Prize for best overall performance in Part IB A |
| Owen Hunter, Churchill College | Cavendish Physics IB B Prize for best overall performance in Part IB B |
| Jiaqi (Joshua) Wu, Peterhouse College | Cavendish Physics Part II – Hartree & Clerk Maxwell prize. Awarded to the candidate who has shown the greatest distinction in Experimental and Theoretical Physics |
| Alba Burgos Mondejar, Emmanuel College | Cavendish Physics Part II – Amalendu Dev Memorial for Best Research Review, sponsored by Dr Ken Dev |
| Francesca Di Cecio, Corpus Christi College
and Louis Kirkpatrick, Trinity College |
Cavendish Physics Part II – The Mark Warner Prize for talented theoretical physicists, sponsored by the Ogden Trust |
| Rtvik Patel, St Catharines College | Cavendish Physics Part III (Experimental) – Nevill Mott Prizes for best Part III projects |
| Prabhoda Chandra Sarjapour, Lucy Cavendish College | Cavendish Physics Part III (Theoretical) – Nevill Mott Prizes for best Part III projects |
| Daniil Zhitov, Corpus Christi College | Cavendish Physics Part III – Cavendish Laboratory Prize best overall performance in Part III |
| Long Hei Kwan, Lucy Cavendish College | Cavendish Physics Part III – Cavendish Laboratory Computational Project Prize Awarded to the student who makes the most effective use of software in their final year physics projects |
| Zebedee Summerfield, Pembroke College | Cavendish MASt – Cavendish Laboratory MASt Prize for best overall performance in the MASt |
| Eero Jaaskelainen, Christ’s College | 2024 Part III – Nevill Mott Prizes for Best Part III Project (Experimental) |
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