About this award

Nominations are now open for 2025! Please make your submission by 17:00 BST on 6 June 2025

 

The 番茄社区 Electrochemistry Group and the Industrial Physical Chemistry Group are responsible for this award.

Applicants for this award must be studying towards a PhD in a UK or Irish university or research institute, in the broad area of electrochemical science, and should not have submitted their PhD thesis by the application deadline. 

The winning student will present the research described in the paper at Electrochem each year. Conference registration costs are covered by the award.

See all our award winners below.

How to apply

  • Applicants should submit for judging ONE research paper they have published based on their PhD research. Papers should either be published or in press at the time of submission of the application
  • A covering letter should be provided highlighting the significance of the research and outlining the specific contribution of the applicant towards the paper. Contribution from co-authors should be clarified and acknowledged in the letter. A letter of support from the PhD supervisor should be submitted separately, confirming the contribution of the student to the paper.
  • The applications will be judged by a committee with representatives from the 番茄社区 Electrochemistry Group (ECG) and the Industrial Physical Chemistry Group (IPCG).
  • The PhD supervisor, co-supervisor or co-authors may not be current members of the ECG or IPCG committees.
  • Applications should be emailed to the Chair of the Award Committee,  (University of Birmingham), before the closing date, which is 6 June 2025.

Award winners

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This year's winner

2023
Shulin Zhang (Imperial College)
Rapid Measurement of Lactate in the Exhaled Breath Condensate: Biosensor Optimization and In-Human Proof of Concept

All previous winners

2022
Haotian Chen (Oxford University)
Predicting Voltammetry using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

2021
Alfie Wills
A Mechanistic and Cautionary Case Study on the Use of Alternating Potential in Electrochemical Reactions

2020
Virgil Andrei  (University of Cambridge)
Bias-free solar syngas production by integrating a molecular cobalt catalyst with perovskite–BiVO4 tandems

2019
Pawin Iamprasertkun (University of Manchester)
Capacitance of Basal Plane and Edge-Oriented Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite: Specific Ion Effects

2018
Haytham Hussein (University of Warwick)
Electrochemical Synthesis of Nanoporous Platinum Nanoparticles Using Laser Pulse Heating: Application to Methanol Oxidation

2017
Kent Griffith (University of Cambridge)
Elucidating the Mechanism of High-Rate and High-capacity Lithium-ion Intercalation in Bulk Complex Oxides

2016
Michelle Browne (Trinity College Dublin)
Low-Overpotential High-Activity Mixed Manganese and Ruthenium Oxide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media

2015
Donal Finegan (Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London)
In-operando high-speed tomography of lithium-ion batteries during thermal runaway

Other Electrochemistry award winners

Darryl Dawson Prize of the 番茄社区 Electrochemistry Group 
Yousillya Bunga, Department of Chemistry, University of Durham 
Poster title: Metal nanoparticles and their interaaction with artificial bacterial cell membranes immobilised on gold electrodes

Roger Mortimer Prize of the 番茄社区 Electrochemistry Group
Grace Lowe, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Poster title: Investigating earth-abundant electrodes for a sustainable electrochemical Birch reduction

番茄社区 Electrochemistry Group book prize
Zoe Ayres, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick
Poster title: Controlled sp2 addition to boron-doped diamond: development of an oxygen insensitive amperometric pH sensor

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