Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.


Neslihan Tas
Hacettepe University, Turkey
For her research into the Maillard reaction and the novel approaches to understanding the chemistry of this complex reaction.

Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.

NPL Air Quality Networks Team
For outstanding application of knowledge and teamwork to produce 20 years of robust, high-quality air pollutant data for three of the UK’s air qual...

NSF Center for Molecularly Optimized Networks
For demonstrating the potential and impact of embedded mechanochemical reactivity on the mechanical limits of cross-linked polymer networks.

Orbitrap Astral Team
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a mass analyser, enabling faster and more sensitive analysis from single cell...

Particle Characterisation Group
2025 Inspirational Committee Award: awarded for proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.

PERIODically: the podcast that covers all things periods...
For sparking discussion around the challenges menstrual periods create for people working in higher education, acting as advocates to help remove s...

Pilgrim School Science Department
For planning and facilitating a move from theoretical to hands-on practical science, for a broad age range of students with special educational med...

Pioneers in Hybrid Glass Research
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and development of hybrid glasses, a new family of glasses separate to known inorganic, organi...

PISCO Team
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of new photochromic dyes for use in semi-transparent solar cells with light tra...

Pizza Model Approach for Raising the Employability of Che...
For the collaborative design and implementation of regional, national and international activities which embed transferable skills and employabilit...

Plymouth Science CIC
For creating innovative teaching resources that enable children to work scientifically and demonstrate their skills and creativity through a hands-...

Polarisation Photocatalysis
For the development of polarisation photocatalysis using spontaneous electric fields in polar materials to mitigate charge carrier recombination, p...

Professor Alan Goldman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
For deep and scholarly insight into the mechanisms of organometallic reactions and the design of organometallic catalysts.

Professor Alan Mackie
University of Leeds, UK
For the impact his research and scientific contributions have had in the field of food chemistry.

Professor Alastair Lewis
University of York and National Centre for Atmospheric Science
For the promotion and application of the chemical sciences to support development of evidence-based policy and regulation in the fields of air poll...

Alessandro Troisi
University of Liverpool, UK
For the development of theoretical methods to explain and predict the electronic and optical properties of organic materials.

Professor Ali Tavassoli
University of Southampton, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for the high-throughput intracellular production and screening of cyclic peptide libraries, and their applica...

Professor Alison Hulme
University of Edinburgh, UK
For outstanding service to the 欧美AV and the organic chemistry community through our member communities and governance groups.

Professor Andrew Baldwin
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of chemical methods for understanding the biology of membraneless organelles.