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.
Dr Jack Woolley
University of Warwick, UK
For providing outstanding technical and scientific support to users of the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy, enabling many researchers to...
2025 Technical Excellence Prizes
Dr James Redman
Cardiff University, UK
For outstanding service to the ÂÜÀòÉç through the Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group and the South East Wales Local Section.
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
Dr Jennifer Kingston
AstraZeneca, UK
For leading the delivery of a cutting-edge purification laboratory, championing sustainable automated purification strategies, and developing techn...
2025 Technical Excellence Prizes
Dr Jon Major
University of Liverpool, UK
For pioneering work into the development, characterisation, and optimisation of inorganic thin-film solar cells and developing antimony selenide ph...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
For innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study of three-dimensional chemical switches.
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Mattia Silvi
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development of creative synthetic strategies through the design of novel radical acceptors.
2025 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
For significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-free Birch reduction, and the isolation of monome...
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
Dr Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering the development of computational methods for antibody design and optimisation, enabling transformative advances in biomedical resear...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface early career prize: Norman Heatley Award
Dr Rebecca Beveridge
University of Strathclyde, UK
For the application of mass spectrometry methods to the structural characterisation of dynamic protein conformations and complexes.
2025 Analytical Science early career prize: Joseph Black Prize
EPSRC NRF for EPR
For outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for EPR spectroscopy at The University of Man...
2025 Technical Excellence Prizes
Fidele Ntie-Kang
University of Buea, Cameroon
Winner 2025: For making a significant contribution to a natural product related area of the chemical sciences in their independent research careers.
2025 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Frank Leibfarth
University of North Carolina, USA
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career
2025 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
For defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase heterogeneous carbon dioxide photocatalysis.
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
George Jackson
Winner 2025: for his outstanding work in the field of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
2025 Lennard-Jones Lectureship
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
For outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and championing a positive inclusive cu...
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Green Circular Solvent Team
For a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-toxic solvent Cyrene™ towards safe and sustainable...
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
Winner 2025: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
For developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conversion technologies.
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Harm Reduction
For the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on policing and harm reduction.
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Joanne Davies
For work as an early career teacher to make science inclusive of all children, enabling them to see themselves as scientists, and ensuring every ch...
2025 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education