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.
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 Chemistry 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 Chemistry 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 Zoë 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 Chemistry 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 Chemistry
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 Green Chemistry Commitment
For fostering a green chemistry community of practice that empowers educators across the world to integrate green chemistry into the science curric...
2025 Horizon Prizes for Education
The Lipidomics Team
For the development of a comparative lipidomics platform, combining chemical synthesis, bioinformatics, and human immunology with the aim to fight...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
The PERFORM COVID-19 Team
For advancing the understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on the transmissibility of respiratory path...
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes
UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy
For advancing circular economy solutions for the UK chemical industry through chemical recycling, biomass conversion and direct carbon dioxide redu...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
University of York "Decolonising the Chemistry Curriculum...
For championing decolonisation of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum, through widespread dissemination of strategies and resources to promote m...
2025 Horizon Prizes for Education
Vicente Talanquer
For groundbreaking research on student reasoning in chemistry, which has shed light on critical factors that affect student learning and guided the...
2025 Nyholm Prize for Education
Virtual Labs Team
For their cross-institution collaboration to integrate virtual labs aimed at enhancing the laboratory experience and preparing students for the ind...
2025 Team Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
We are Chemistry (WaC)
For the development of an impactful integrated engagement programme transforming student success through building equitable, inclusive networks, em...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Xiao Shen
Wuhan University, China
The RSC Fluorine Prize is awarded to a young researcher who has made a significant contribution to the area of fluorine chemistry and is chosen by...
2025 Fluorine Chemistry Award
Yu-Hsuan How, Emily Min-Yan Lim, Ianne Kong, Phei-Er Kee...
Paper: Development of carboxymethyl cellulose–chitosan based antibacterial films incorporating a Persicaria minor Huds. essential oil nanoemulsion
2025 Sustainable Food Technology Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award