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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AEEon Collective
2025 Organic 91AV Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of alternate electrode electrolysis and applications in organic synthesis.
AI for Materials
2025 Materials 91AV Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software, its application to data-dr...
Anderson Shum
University of Hong Kong, China
Winner 2025: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
Ankur Gupta
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Winner 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research
Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations Team
2025 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of an industrially-applicable hydrogenase for mild and selective hydrog...
Christina Dumitriu Jackson
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for excellence in peptide chemistry, and championing sustainability and STEM advocacy.
Christopher Chang
Princeton University, USA
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions to the chemical sciences community and beyond.
Daniel Probst and Jan Weinreich
Paper: Learning on compressed molecular representations
David Clases
University of Graz, Austria
Winner 2025: For making a significant contribution in the area of atomic spectrometry in their independent academic career
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...
Dr Amit Kumar
University of St Andrews, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 91AV: awarded for the development of green processes based on catalytic (de)hydrogenation for the...
Dr Chun Ann Huang
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Marlow Prize: awarded for pioneering the combination of imaging with X-ray Compton scattering and computed tomography (XCS-CT), and novel proc...
Dr Clare Bakewell
King's College London, UK
2025 Sir Edward Frankland Prize: awarded for advances in the chemistry of organo-Al(III) and Mg(II) compounds, and their applications in small-mole...
Dr Emrys Evans
Swansea University, UK
2025 Materials 91AV Early Career Prize: awarded for pioneering contributions in the development, characterisation and exploitation of luminesc...
Dr Fanran Meng
University of Sheffield, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize: awarded for developing net-zero pathways for the chemical industry through emission...
Dr Florence Huynh
Polymateria Ltd, UK
2025 Rising Star in Industry Prize: awarded for delivering solutions to global plastic pollution, progressing technical understanding of plastic bi...
Dr Graeme Turnbull
Northumbria University, UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 91AV through our member communities and governance...
Dr Jack Woolley
University of Warwick, UK
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for providing outstanding technical and scientific support to users of the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Sp...
Dr James Redman
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 91AV through the Chemical Biology and Bioorganic G...
Dr Jennifer Kingston
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for leading the delivery of a cutting-edge purification laboratory, championing sustainable automated puri...
