Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor Sujit Datta
California Institute of Technology, USA
Winner 2024 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Bourke-Liversidge Prize: awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional or...
Professor Tim Bugg
University of Warwick, UK
For the discovery of bacterial enzymes for the degradation of lignin, and their application to the conversion of lignin to renewable chemicals.
Professor Timothy Donohoe
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative development of catalytic methods that activate organic molecules by redox processes.
Professor Tom Brown
University of Oxford, UK
For major contributions in the nucleic acid field, including the synthesis of biocompatible artificial DNA, and molecular tools for genetic analysi...
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2025 Peter Day Prize: awarded for groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage,...
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2025 Pedler Prize: awarded for insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
Professor Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.
Professor Vernon Gibson
University of Manchester, University of Oxford and Imperial College London
For seminal contributions to fundamental and applied inorganic chemistry, and for critical work in policy setting at the interface of academia with...
Professor Vijay Chudasama
University College London, UK
For the development of reagents and strategies for site-selective protein modification to enable targeted therapy, imaging and diagnostics.
Professor Volker Deringer
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative contributions to the modelling and understanding of amorphous materials.
Professor Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphona...
Professor William Griffith
Imperial College London and 番茄社区 Historical Group
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through our Historical Group and for advising on activities celebrating the history of th...
Professor Xingyu Jiang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2025 Theophilus Redwood Prize: awarded for molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health
Professor Zo毛 Waller
University College London, UK
For her outstanding contribution to the chemical biology community and her exceptional research achievements on the stability and function of DNA i...
Professor Zo毛 Waller
University College London, UK
2025 Jeremy Knowles Award: awarded for contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context usin...
Pulpex x BASF x Scitech Adhesives - Coatings Collaboration
For the creation of a partnership that has delivered a new sustainable fibre packaging solution as an alternative to plastic and glass, which deliv...
Rapha毛le Cl茅ment
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Winner 2024: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
Rebecca Goss
University of St Andrews, UK
For pioneering the use of enzymatic halogenation/cross-coupling in C‒H activation.
Richard Brown
National Physical Laboratory, UK
For excellence in theoretical and practical aspects of chemical measurement leading to the recent redefinition of the mole, and communication of th...