Dr Ian Campbell, co-founder of Breathe Battery Technologies, was presented with The Princess Royal Silver Medal by HRH The Princess Royal at the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Awards Dinner in London.
His win was announced last week, and the medal is one of the Academy’s most prestigious individual honours, recognising an outstanding personal contribution to UK engineering by an early- to mid-career engineer.
Ian received the medal alongside fellow 2026 honourees Dr Liucheng Guo (TG0) and Professor Robert Thomson FREng (Heriot-Watt University).
Breathe Battery Technologies is a London-based company whose software simulates the inner workings of batteries to optimise charging and design without any hardware changes. Its technology has been adopted by major automotive and technology partners including Volvo Cars, OPPO and Bang & Olufsen.
Speaking when his win was announced last week, Dr Ian Campbell said:
“I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive the Princess Royal Silver Medal. Climate change and air pollution continue to threaten health and livelihoods worldwide. By combining battery physics simulation with materials libraries built in industrial-scale labs, we can screen millions of potential designs and rapidly optimise the most promising candidates using advanced software. This capability is helping to bring cleaner, quieter, healthier and more affordable cars, trucks and energy storage systems to market faster.”
