University of Huddersfield academic and leading expert in advanced nuclear materials, Professor Konstantina Lambrinou, has been named the winner of three global awards by The European journal.

Professor Lambrinou has been honoured in The European Awards 2025 three times over, as the recipient of the following awards:

• Excellence in Nuclear Engineering Award 2025
• Clean Energy Materials Visionary Award 2025
• Woman of The Year for STEM Leadership Award 2025

Professor Lambrinou is Professor of Advanced Materials at the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests revolve around the accelerated development of advanced nuclear materials, including accident-tolerant fuels (ATFs).

Professor Lambrinou is the coordinator of the H2020 IL TROVATORE project, an international collaboration involving 30 partners from the EU, the USA and Japan, funded by H2020 Europe’s Euratom Research and Training Programme.

She is also the coordinator of the HORIZON SCORPION project, an international collaboration involving 16 partners from the EU, the UK, the USA, Japan, and Switzerland, funded by Horizon Europe’s Euratom Research and Training Programme. Moreover, she is the European lead of the I-NERI US/EURATOM PERSEUS project, and the technical lead of a Westinghouse-led GAIN VOUCHER program funded by US-DOE.