Professor Di Silvio recognised for supervisory excellence

Professor Lucy Di Silvio has won the 2014 Graduate School Supervisory Excellence Award for the Dental Institute.

Each year the Graduate School awards Supervisory Excellence Awards designed to recognise and reward postgraduate supervisors for the outstanding supervision and support that they offer to research students at King’s College London. The key criteria in selecting winners from the nominees are that they demonstrate innovation in their thinking or practice and that they support the personal development of their students towards their chosen career goal.

Professor Di Silvio, who is Head of the Biomaterials, Biomimetics & Biophotonics Division at the Dental Institute, currently supervises four PhD students and was praised for her ability to easily establish a ‘positive, non-overbearing advisory rapport with her students’. 

Commenting on the award, she said: ‘I am delighted to receive this award and feel honoured at this show of appreciation by my students.’

Professor Di Silvio will receive a nominal financial award, which will be paid into her College research account, and will have the chance to receive recognition of her achievement at one of degree ceremonies this summer.

Professor Vaughan Robinson, Director of The Graduate School, said: ‘Now that the Supervisory Excellence Awards have become embedded within College life we received an exceptional set of nominations. This says a great deal about the dedication of King's PhD supervisors and the esteem in which their students hold them. It was extraordinarily difficult to select the winners. They will now help us spread best practice during the coming academic year.’

Find out more about the Supervisory Excellence Awards on the College website.