Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Cumbernauld Academy STEM Club
For the development of creative STEM activities for learners of all ages and abilities, and the development of staff to support learners in a varie...
2023 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Daniel Probst and Jan Weinreich
Paper: Learning on compressed molecular representations
2025 Digital Discovery Outstanding Early Career Research Award
David Clases
University of Graz, Austria
Winner 2025: For making a significant contribution in the area of atomic spectrometry in their independent academic career
2025 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship
David Scanlon
University of Birmingham, UK
For contributions to materials modelling of conducting oxides.
2021 Materials 九州影院 Early Career Prize
Derya Baran
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Winner 2025: for an outstanding emerging investigator working in an energy research topic within the scope of the journal Energy and Environmental...
2025 EES Lectureship
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2025 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education: awarded for taking cutting edge science research and presenting it in formats that could be us...
2025 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Digital Virtual Reality Centres for Global Equality in Sc...
For the creation of the 3DI Virtual Reality Institute, a digital space for students and colleagues from across the globe to meet and collaborate.
2024 Horizon Prizes for Education
Discovery Planet CIC
For building a sustained relationship with their underserved community, bringing accessible STEM experiences to more than 20,000 participants, and...
2024 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
DMF-NMR development
For the development of Digital Microfluidics-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (DMF-NMR) technology for enhanced chemical analysis.
2021 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Dongshuang Wu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Winner 2024: For outstanding contributions to physical chemistry, chemical physics, or biophysical chemistry in their early career.
2024 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Dr Adrian Chaplin
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to organometallic chemistry involving the imaginative use of pincer ligands.
2023 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Dr Aisling N铆 Cheallaigh
Keele University, UK
For dedication to the Carbohydrate Group through revitalising the committee and leading successful international early career webinars.
2023 Inspirational Member Award
Dr Alex Shard
National Physical Laboratory, UK
For pioneering accurate chemical measurements of surfaces and interfaces.
2020 Industrial Analytical Science Award
Dr Alexander Baker
University of Warwick, UK
For exceptional inspiration of students, encouraging them to challenge, develop and grow their scientific passion.
2024 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Dr Alexandra Gibbs
University of St Andrews, UK
For unravelling how structure drives functionality to aid the discovery and understanding of quantum and functional materials.
2023 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院
Dr Alison Hill
University of Exeter, UK
For inspirational teaching and making a positive difference in curriculum design, implementation, assessment and to the wider community.
2022 Excellence in Higher Education Prize
Dr Amanda Hardy
Royal Society of Biology and RSC Chilterns and Middlesex Local Section
For dedication to the diversification of the committee and programmes of the Chilterns and Middlesex Local Section.
2020 Inspirational Member Award
Dr Amit Kumar
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...
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院
Dr Anabel Lanterna
University of Nottingham, UK
For innovative research on heterogeneous photocatalysis, pushing boundaries towards less expensive, light-responsive, reusable catalytic processes...
2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize
Dr Andrea Laybourn
University of Nottingham, UK
For outstanding contributions towards developing the sustainable synthesis of porous materials, with a particular emphasis on microwave and continu...
2023 Barrer Award