Professor Eva Nogales
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When Romain Grosjean crashed heavily into barriers on the first lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2020, his car ripped in half and burst into flames. Considered one of the most miraculous escapes in Formula 1’ s history, Ian was among those first on the scene and received the FIA President Award and international praise for his bravery and reaction after helping to pull Grosjean to safety. Ian has helped ensure the safety of F1 drivers at more than 250 Grand Prix races and received the HRH Prince Michael of Kent Award of Merit in 2022 for his exceptional work in motorsport safety and medicine.
Before his career in motorsport medicine, which began with his appointment as the chief medical officer for Silverstone with responsibility for the British Grand Prix, Ian worked as a rotational Registrar in the NHS between 1993 and 1998. This included regularly working at Stoke-on-Trent’ s North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and City General Hospital sites, and he also completed a Master of Medical Sciences degree with Keele University between 1996 and 1998.
Professor Eva Nogales
Doctor of Science
Professor Eva Nogales earned her physics degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid and her biophysics doctorate from Keele University. She is a Distinguished Professor in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Professor Nogales’ research is focused on defining the molecular bases of cellular activity by describing the structure, dynamics and interactions of cellular components essential for eukaryotic life.
She has received awards from scientific societies in the US, including the Microscopy( MSA), Biophysics( BPS), Cell Biology( ASCB), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology( ASBMB) and Protein Societies. She is member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of EMBO and the Royal Academy of Exact Sciences of Spain. In 2020 she was president of the American Society for Cell Biology. Nogales received the Grimwade Medal from the University of Melbourne( 2019), the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine( 2023), and the CSIC Medal for Extraordinary Scientific Merit, the highest honor awarded by the National Science Council of Spain( 2024). In 2025 she became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.