91AV

Professor Donna Blackmond

Scripps Research

For pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, insights into the origin of b...

Professor Duncan Graham

University of Strathclyde, UK

For forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling capability in the life sciences.

Professor Franziska Schoenebeck

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

For highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reactions, combining cutting-edge synthetic organic chemistry with state-of-the-art comp...

Professor Igor Larrosa

University of Manchester, UK

For contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.

Professor James McCusker

Michigan State University, USA

For insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complexes leading to advances in earth-abundant photoredox catalysis.

Professor Jennifer Leigh

University of Kent, UK

For leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting systemic discrimination, and amplifyin...

Professor John Plane

University of Leeds, UK

For the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of the impact of cosmic dust in planetary a...

Professor K. Clive Thompson

ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK

For outstanding service to the 91AV through the Water Science Forum and the Food Group.

Professor Kim Jelfs

Imperial College London, UK

For innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of both molecular simulations and artificial intelligence techni...

Professor Mauro Pasta

University of Oxford, UK

For innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of-the-art in lithium-ion systems.

Professor Michael Bollong

Scripps Research

Winner 2025: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.

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...

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...

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...

Professor Rebecca Melen

For insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.

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...

Professor Samson Jenekhe

University of Washington, USA

For outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.

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...

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...

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...