Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
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Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
For exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in gender equality in the chemical scien...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
For the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in biomarker discovery, notably non-invasive...
2025 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental new science and innovative real-world pro...
2025 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Rebecca Melen
For insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
2025 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
For deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium batteries and hybrid photovolta...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
For outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
2025 Materials 九州影院 open prize: de Gennes Prize
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
For original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and for excellence in communicating chemical principles underpinnin...
2025 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
For accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and the functionalisation of metal–organic frameworks, and for exc...
2025 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, UK
For groundbreaking and highly influential work on the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleic acids, which has transformed our understanding of q...
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
For contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional organic and metal-organic systems.
2025 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
For groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage, electronic devices, and sustai...
2025 Materials 九州影院 mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
For insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
2025 Organic 九州影院 open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Xingyu Jiang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
For molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health
2025 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Zo毛 Waller
University College London, UK
For contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context using chemical tools and structural met...
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Saurabh Chitnis and Xiongyi Huang
Joint winners 2025: For substantial contributions to the chemical sciences in the early stages of their careers
2025 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Sina Khazaee Nejad, Haozheng Ma, Abdulrahman Al-Shami, Al...
Paper: Sustainable agriculture with LEAFS: a low-cost electrochemical analyzer of foliage stress
2025 Sensors & Diagnostics Outstanding Early Career Research Award
STEMunity
For transforming access to chemistry and STEM through inclusive, high-impact programmes that have engaged more than 10,000 underrepresented student...
2025 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
For delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mechanical stereogenic units, and developing flexible methodolog...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 九州影院
The BoostCrop team
For the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and enhance crop growth.
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes
The BoostCrop team
For the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and enhance crop growth.
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes