Celebrating the Work of our Fellows at the 2025 Alumni Science Evening

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was pleased to invite a number of 1851 Fellows to discuss their research during an Alumni Science Evening held at the Royal Society this May. The audience of 1851 Alumni and Commissioners heard from a mix of Research and Industrial Fellows with a chance for Q&As in-between each section.

Speakers

Dr Magdalene Ho: Industrial Fellow 2022
Smart DNA ‘super-plasters’ to engineer wound repair

Matthew Diable: Industrial Fellow 2022
New polymeric photoinitiators with improved migration stability for safer photocuring technologies

Dr Tim Hageman: Research Fellow 2022
An engineering approach to modelling the collapse of ice-cliffs

Dr Alex Riley: Research Fellow 2022
The tangled web surrounding our Galaxy

Keynote Address
Professor Philip Donoghue FRS
Molecular palaeobiology