Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Laura Gagliardi
University of Chicago, USA
For contributions to the development of multireference quantum chemical approaches to describe catalysis and excited state phenomena.
Laura Herz
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering work advancing the development of solar cells through fundamental understanding of electronic, structural and chemical properties of...
Leeds Lab Educators
For the creation of experiments and activities that improve students’ preparation for research in organic synthesis
Li Tang
EPFL, Switzerland
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
Liam Johnson
2025 Excellence in Primary Education Prize: awarded for facilitating inclusive, inspiring educational opportunities, raising chemistry's profile an...
Lighting up RNA team
For the development of two bright multi-colour fluorogenic aptamer tags, and for demystifying the fluorescence activation mechanism, enabling effic...
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...
Luisa De Cola
University of Strasbourg, France
For innovative studies on how photophysically active materials and nanostructures may be fabricated for deployment within active biological systems...
Lynn Kidwell
Birches Head Academy
For significant and sustained contributions to safe chemistry practical education.
Manfred Scheer
University of Regensburg, Germany
For pioneering research on main group and organometallic chemistry.
Maria Lucana, Roberta Lucchi, Fabien Gosselet, Cristina D...
BrainBike peptidomimetic enables efficient transport of proteins across brain endothelium
Marina Freitag
Newcastle University, UK
For outstanding work to develop, elaborate, and understand novel energy materials.
Marina Kuimova
Imperial College London, UK
For the development of unique probes and methodologies in fluorescence imaging leading to an understanding of dynamic biological processes in livin...
Mario Moustras
For dedication to the Management Group community through the diversification of the committee and activities.
Mark Thompson
University of Southern California, USA
For the discovery and development of inorganic molecular materials for flat panel displays and lighting, combining insights into the photophysical...
Martin Heeney
KAUST, Saudi Arabia
For pioneering contributions to solution processed organic semiconductors, particularly heavy main group containing polymers, and their device appl...
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...
Matthew Fuchter
University of Oxford, UK
For the development of chemistry-led approaches to interrogate function in chemistry, materials and medicine.
Matthew Gibson
University of Manchester, UK
For transformative contributions in polymer and biomaterials science, particularly for the development of materials to stabilise biologics.
Matthew Gundry
2025 Excellence in Secondary and Further Education Prize: awarded for his exceptional leadership, curriculum development and student engagement, wh...