Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize: awarded for insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
Dr Jon Major
University of Liverpool, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize: awarded for pioneering work into the development, characterisation, and optimisation...
Dr Fanran Meng
University of Sheffield, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize: awarded for developing net-zero pathways for the chemical industry through emission...
Professor Anita Maguire
University College Cork, Ireland
2025 Bader Prize: awarded for the development of a diverse range of synthetic organic methodologies and protocols, and their applications to medici...
Mia Outram
No7 Beauty Company
2025 番茄社区 Apprentice Prize: awarded for undertaking the key formulation work in developing a new high SPF skincare product, and representing apprent...
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental...
Christina Dumitriu Jackson
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 番茄社区 Apprentice Prize: awarded for excellence in peptide chemistry, and championing sustainability and STEM advocacy.
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
2025 de Gennes Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
Dr Jennifer Kingston
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for leading the delivery of a cutting-edge purification laboratory, championing sustainable automated puri...
Dr Amit Kumar
University of St Andrews, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the development of green processes based on catalytic (de)hydrogenation for the...
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study...
Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: awarded for defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase...
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling...
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and f...
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
AI for Materials
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software, its application to data-dr...