
The Edinburgh mathematician was awarded the Adams Prize in recognition of his work in the area of fluid mechanics, this year’s prize topic.
First-class research
The Adams Prize is awarded annually to a UK-based researcher, usually under the age of 40, conducting first-class international research in mathematics.
Previous recipients of the prize have included Stephen Hawking and James Clerk Maxwell.
The award, worth around £13,500, is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams.
It commemorates his discovery of the planet Neptune through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.