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.
Professor Emma Raven
University of Bristol, UK
For seminal contributions to understanding the roles of heme in biology.
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...
Professor Eric Anslyn
University of Texas at Austin, USA
For exploiting supramolecular interactions and dynamic covalent bonding to generate assays of practical utility, and for communicating the exciteme...
Professor Euan Brechin
University of Edinburgh, UK
For outstanding contributions to synthetic coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism.
Professor Fernanda Duarte
University of Oxford, UK
For introducing multidisciplinary approaches to rationalise complex (bio)chemical reaction mechanisms, guiding rational molecular design.
Professor Frank Vanhaecke
Ghent University, Belgium
For the development of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) based methodologies for elemental, isotopic and single-event analysis.
Professor Franziska Schoenebeck
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2025 欧美AV/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences: awarded for highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reacti...
Professor Geoffrey Maitland
Imperial College London, UK
For outstanding service to the 欧美AV through our publishing activities and governance groups.
Professor Gita Sedghi
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to excellence in higher education teaching and for having transformative impact on the student experience.
Professor Harry Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.
Professor Helen Cooper
University of Birmingham, UK
For the development of native ambient mass spectrometry as an analytical technique to enable direct analysis and imaging of intact proteins and pro...
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Robert Robinson Prize: awarded for contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
Professor J. Paul
University of Edinburgh, UK
For transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids.
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry: awarded for insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complex...
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
For the combined application of synthesis and ultrafast spectroscopy to advance our understanding of the excited-state dynamics of transition metal...
Professor James Tour
Rice University, USA
For innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.
Professor Jan Verlet
Durham University, UK
For pioneering contributions to the spectroscopy and dynamics of anions in the gas-phase and at aqueous interfaces.
Professor Jason Hallett
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering work on the development of ionic liquids as commercially relevant solvents in biorefining and the circular economy.
Professor Jason Micklefield
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative research spanning organic chemistry to molecular genetics, leading to the discovery, characterisation, and engineering of many novel...
Professor Jean-Luc Br茅das
University of Arizona, USA
For seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of the electronic properties of organic materials for electronics and photonics, and for...
