Five Cambridge academics have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Five Cambridge academics have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Professor Paul Mellars, Director of Studies in Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Prehistory and Human Evolution in the Department of Archaeology, is knighted for services to scholarship.
His recent research has focused mainly on the study of behaviour and archaeology of Neanderthal populations in Europe, and the ways in which the Neanderthals were eventually replaced by biologically and behaviourally ‘modern’ populations (i.e. Homo sapiens) around 40,000 years ago – a subject on which he recently made a TV documentary for BBC2.
Professor Robert James Mair, FRS. Master of Jesus College and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, is made a CBE for services to engineering.
Professor Mair’s research focuses on Underground Construction, Urban Infrastructure Renewal and Innovative Sensor Technologies for Infrastructure Monitoring.
He has been involved in the Jubilee Line extension for London Underground, and the Channel Tunnel rail link, as well as railway tunnel projects in a host of other European cities, including Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome.
Dr Andrew Herbert, Fellow of Wolfson College, and managing director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, is made an OBE for services to computer science.
Dr Peter Clarkson, emeritus associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, is made an MBE for services to science.
David Duke, principal technician at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, is made an MBE for services to science.
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