Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Explore 2025 winners Yearly celebrations
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Dr Jon Major
University of Liverpool, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize: awarded for pioneering work into the development, characterisation, and optimisation...
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 91AV: awarded for innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study...
Dr Mattia Silvi
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Hickinbottom Prize: awarded for the development of creative synthetic strategies through the design of novel radical acceptors.
Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize: awarded for significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-fr...
Dr Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Norman Heatley Award: awarded for pioneering the development of computational methods for antibody design and optimisation, enabling transform...
Dr Rebecca Beveridge
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Joseph Black Prize: awarded for the application of mass spectrometry methods to the structural characterisation of dynamic protein conformatio...
EPSRC NRF for EPR
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for...
Frank Leibfarth
University of North Carolina, USA
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career
Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: awarded for defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase...
George Jackson
Winner 2025: for his outstanding work in the field of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...
Green Circular Solvent Team
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize: awarded for a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-...
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 91AV: awarded for developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conve...
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
Winner 2025: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
Harm Reduction
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on pol...
Johannes Broichhagen, Kilian Ro脽mann, Ramona Birke, Joshu...
Paper: Red and far-red cleavable fluorescent dyes for self-labelling enzyme protein tagging and interrogation of GPCR co-internalization
Kai S Exner
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Winner: 2025 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship - for outstanding contributions to physical chemistry, chemical physics, or biophysical chemist...
Li Tang
EPFL, Switzerland
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
Martina Letizia Contente
University of Milan, Italy
For her internationally groundbreaking contributions to chemical biotechnology with a particular focus on biocatalysis for the sustainable producti...
Mia Outram
No7 Beauty Company , UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for undertaking the key formulation work in developing a new high SPF skincare product, and representing apprent...
