Our 2025 prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
We have collected some of the exciting across our journals portfolio. This collection showcases the wide range of research that our winners have published across the 九州影院鈥檚 journals portfolio and will be free to access until 30 September 2025.
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Our Horizon Prize winners
Orbitrap Astral Team
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a mass analyser, enabling faster and more sensitive analysis from single cell...
Harm Reduction
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on pol...
Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations Team
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of an industrially-applicable hydrogenase for mild and selective hydrog...
The Lipidomics Team
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a comparative lipidomics platform, combining chemical synthesis, bio...
Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.
Pioneers in Hybrid Glass Research
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and development of hybrid glasses, a new family of glasses separate to known inorganic, organi...
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...
UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: awarded for advancing circular economy solutions for the UK chemical industry through ch...
The PERFORM COVID-19 Team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for advancing the understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on the...
The BoostCrop team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and...
PISCO Team
2025 Materials 九州影院 Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of new photochromic dyes for use in semi-transparent solar cells with light tra...
AI for Materials
2025 Materials 九州影院 Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software, its application to data-dr...
Our Inclusion and Diversity Prize winners
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, England
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting sy...
Professor Paul Walton
The University of York, England
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in g...
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Our Research & Innovation Prize winners
Dr Rebecca Beveridge
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
2025 Joseph Black Prize: awarded for the application of mass spectrometry methods to the structural characterisation of dynamic protein...
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize: awarded for innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical...
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 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...
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for 九州影院 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 九州影院 and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for 九州影院 and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
Dr Pietro Sormanni
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Norman Heatley Award: awarded for pioneering the development of computational methods for antibody design and optimisation, enabling transform...
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...
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Khorana Prize: awarded for groundbreaking and highly influential work on the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleic acids, which has transf...
Professor Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mecha...
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
Dr Clare Bakewell
King's College London, UK
2025 Sir Edward Frankland Prize: for advances in the chemistry of organo-Al(III) and Mg(II) compounds, and their applications in small-molecule act...
Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize: awarded for significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-fr...
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.
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 九州影院: awarded for insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complex...
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...
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...
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Environment Prize: awarded for deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium...
Dr Chun Ann Huang
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize: awarded for pioneering the combination of imaging with X-ray Compton scattering and computed tomogra...
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spec...
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday open Prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to t...
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study...
Dr Guanjie He
University College London, England
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conve...
Dr Amit Kumar
University of St Andrews, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for the development of green processes based on catalytic (de)hydrogenation for the...
Green Circular Solvent Team
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize: awarded for a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-...
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
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 Ali Tavassoli
University of Southampton, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for the high-throughput intracellular production and screening of cyclic peptide libraries, and their applica...
Dr Emrys Evans
Swansea University, UK
2025 Materials 九州影院 Early Career Prize: awarded for pioneering contributions in the development, characterisation and exploitation of luminesc...
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 Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
2025 de Gennes Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
Dr Mattia Silvi
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Hickinbottom Prize: awarded for the development of creative synthetic strategies through the design of novel radical acceptors.
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Robert Robinson Prize: awarded for contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
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.
Dr Florence Huynh
Polymateria Ltd, UK
2025 Rising Star in Industry Prize: awarded for delivering solutions to global plastic pollution, progressing technical understanding of plastic bi...
Christina Dumitriu Jackson
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for excellence in peptide chemistry, and championing sustainability and STEM advocacy.
Mia Outram
No7 Beauty Company
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for undertaking the key formulation work in developing a new high SPF skincare product, and representing apprent...
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...
Professor Franziska Schoenebeck
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences: awarded for highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reacti...
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 Jack Woolley
University of Warwick, UK
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for providing outstanding technical and scientific support to users of the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Sp...
EPSRC NRF for EPR
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for...
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 九州影院: awarded for the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 九州影院: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
Our Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Dr James Redman
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 九州影院 through the Chemical Biology and Bioorganic G...
Dr Graeme Turnbull
Northumbria University, UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 九州影院 through our member communities and governance...
Professor K. Clive Thompson
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 九州影院 through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
Particle Characterisation Group
2025 Inspirational Committee Award: awarded for proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.