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.
AEEon Collective
For the development of alternate electrode electrolysis and applications in organic synthesis.
2025 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prizes
AI for Materials
For the development of chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software, its application to data-driven materials discovery, and its provision of o...
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Anderson Shum
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Winner 2025: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
2025 Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
Ankur Gupta
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Winner 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research
2025 Soft Matter Lectureship
Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations Team
For the development of an industrially-applicable hydrogenase for mild and selective hydrogenation of nitro compounds to amines.
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Christina Dumitriu Jackson
AstraZeneca, UK
For excellence in peptide chemistry, and championing sustainability and STEM advocacy.
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Christopher Chang
Princeton University, USA
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions to the chemical sciences community and beyond.
2025 Chemical Science Lectureship
Conor Eivers
For inspiring students and teachers through his creativity, dedication and passion, in order to develop their love for the subject.
2025 Early Career 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
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
Did You Know?
For taking cutting edge science research and presenting it in formats that could be used by primary school teachers to engage their pupils in the c...
2025 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Dr Amit Kumar
For the development of green processes based on catalytic (de)hydrogenation for the synthesis of renewable polymers and their recycling.
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Benjamin E Arenas
For developing inclusive practices in teaching and support, introducing innovative and diverse assessments for practical chemistry, and mentoring o...
2025 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Dr Chun Ann Huang
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering the combination of imaging with X-ray Compton scattering and computed tomography (XCS-CT), and novel processing to unravel and contr...
2025 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize
Dr Clare Bakewell
King's College London, UK
For advances in the chemistry of organo-Al(III) and Mg(II) compounds, and their applications in small-molecule activation and catalysis.
2025 Dalton early career prize: Sir Edward Frankland Prize
Dr Emrys Evans
Swansea University, UK
For pioneering contributions in the development, characterisation and exploitation of luminescent materials based on organic radicals, for use in l...
2025 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Dr Fanran Meng
University of Sheffield, UK
For developing net-zero pathways for the chemical industry through emissions mapping and decarbonisation strategies.
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize
Dr Florence Huynh
Polymateria Ltd, UK
For delivering solutions to global plastic pollution, progressing technical understanding of plastic biodegradation, and developing new methods for...
2025 Rising Star in Industry Prize
Dr Graeme Turnbull
Northumbria University, UK
For outstanding service to the ÂÜÀòÉç through our member communities and governance groups, in particular supporting the Analyt...
2025 Award for Exceptional Service