Dr Audrey Repetti wins RSE Lady Margaret Moir Medal for imaging research
Dr Audrey Repetti from the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, has been awarded the RSE Lady Margaret Moir Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
The prestigious honour recognises Dr Repetti’s outstanding contributions to non-convex optimisation and machine learning theory for computational imaging, which have had a transformative impact on medical and astronomical imaging.
I have been very lucky to meet and work with great people in the last decade, familiarising me with real-world imaging challenges as a mathematician, and motivating me to build tailored optimisation and machine learning methods
Dr Repetti’s work bridges mathematics and real-world applications, creating algorithmic structures and hypothesis-testing tools that advance imaging technologies used in healthcare and space science.
Reflecting on the award, Dr Repetti said: “I am very grateful to the RSE for this recognition. Mathematical imaging is an interdisciplinary field that offers a wonderful playground for evolving from theory to applications. I have been very lucky to meet and work with great people in the last decade, familiarising me with real-world imaging challenges as a mathematician, and motivating me to build tailored optimisation and machine learning methods.”
Lady Margaret Moir (1864 – 1942) was an Edinburgh-born, engineer, workers’ relief organiser, and founding member of the Women’s Engineering Society in 1919. She was awarded the OBE in recognition of her work in organising the Week End Relief Scheme for women workers during WWI; having witnessed first-hand the challenges of working in munition factories, Moir’s scheme saw herself and other privileged women take the place of full-time workers, allowing the workers weekends off.
The RSE Medal that bears her name recognises exceptional achievements in the physical, engineering and informatic sciences by an early career researcher.
The RSE medals celebrate extraordinary contributions across diverse disciplines and highlight the depth of research talent in Scotland. This year’s recipients were honoured at a reception at the RSE in central Edinburgh, where Professor Anne Anderson, RSE Vice-President of Research, presented the awards.
Professor Anne Anderson commented: “The RSE’s prestigious medals, which are nominated by RSE Fellows, are awarded to recognise truly outstanding accomplishments. Representing a range of fields, this year’s medallists join a remarkable group of pioneers whose work advances our knowledge and helps to improve lives all over the world. Their achievements highlight the depth and breadth of Scotland’s research talent. I congratulate them all.”