Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Dr James Paterson
bp
For contributions in developing a new catalyst and reactor system for bp’s Fischer-Tropsch technology and low carbon fuels platform.
Dr Sebastian Pike
University of Warwick, UK
For studies on the synthesis and photochemistry of metal-oxo cluster molecules and for their use as precursors to functional materials.
Dr Adrian Chaplin
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to organometallic chemistry involving the imaginative use of pincer ligands.
Professor Eduardo Peris
Universitat Jaume I
For the application of creative thinking in approaching fundamental challenges in organometallic chemistry and catalysis.
Dr Josef Boronski
University of Oxford, UK
For groundbreaking investigations into actinide-cyclobutadienyl chemistry, leading to the preparation of a σ-aromatic cluster featuring direct acti...
Dr Joshua Makepeace
University of Birmingham, UK
For advancing ammonia-based fuels and hydrogen storage through the use of metal amide and imide materials, ammonia synthesis and decomposition cata...
Professor Claire Corkhill
University of Sheffield, UK
For advances in ceramic and glass materials for the safe immobilisation of radioactive waste through fundamental understanding of surface degradati...
Professor Stuart Taylor
Cardiff University, UK
For pioneering work on the discovery of catalysts that have been commercialised for environmental protection, including carbon monoxide oxidation c...
Dr Bryan Bzdek
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering contributions to aerosol physical chemistry, including the surface composition of microscopic droplets, new particle formation in th...
Professor Enrique Iglesia
University of California Berkeley, USA
For outstanding contributions to the mechanistic understanding of catalysis, leading scientific innovation for environmental protection and the pro...
Dr James Dawson
Newcastle University, UK
For outstanding contributions to the understanding and modelling of ion transport and interfaces in energy materials.
Dr Alexandra Gibbs
University of St Andrews, UK
For unravelling how structure drives functionality to aid the discovery and understanding of quantum and functional materials.
Anna Slater
University of Liverpool, UK
For the development of innovative tools, particularly flow chemistry processes, to control the formation of supramolecular materials.
Serena Cussen
University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
For interdisciplinary and original contributions to the development of new functional materials for energy storage and in-depth study of their loca...
Professor Nora de
University of Leeds, UK
For the development and application of computational chemistry to enable atomic-level insights into biomedical materials for in vivo and nature-ins...
Professor Ludmilla Steier
University of Oxford, UK
For seminal contributions to the understanding of defect chemistry in semiconducting materials and interfacial energetics in photocatalytic and pho...
Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan
University of Cambridge, UK
For advancing research in functional polymers and nanocomposites, and their application in energy, sensing and biomedicine using microscale additiv...
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
For seminal contributions to the development of organic semiconducting materials and device physics of organic photovoltaics to mitigate climate ch...
Dr Matthew Grayson
University of Bath, UK
For enabling rational organic reactivity design through the use and development of computational methods.
Professor Stephen Fletcher
University of Oxford, UK
For the development of asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura-type and other catalytic cross-coupling reactions with racemic starting materials.