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


Dr Felice Torrisi
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative contributions to the understanding of charge transport in networks of two-dimensional materials for the development of printed elect...

Professor Tim Bugg
University of Warwick, UK
For the discovery of bacterial enzymes for the degradation of lignin, and their application to the conversion of lignin to renewable chemicals.

Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.

S茅bastien Perrier
University of Warwick, UK
For interdisciplinary research in the synthesis and applications of therapeutic materials.

Dr Nicola Gasparini
Imperial College London, UK
For understanding charge recombination processes in organic and perovskite semiconductors for high performance photovoltaic and photodetector devices.

Ross Forgan
University of Glasgow, UK
For contributions to the development and application of metal-organic frameworks as functional energy materials.

Professor Dermot O'Hare
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting their application and commercialisation in sustainab...

Professor Liam Ball
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development and mechanistic study of new organic synthesis methods based on pnictogen elements.

Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.

Professor Harry Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.

Dr Edris Joonaki
TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory
For significant technical leadership and contributions to the delivery of UK-government funded hydrogen and carbon capture and storage projects for...

Harriet Bean
BASF, USA
For major contributions towards the future sustainability of production plants through improvements to process safety, asset effectiveness, through...

Annabel Morris
AstraZeneca, UK
For the development of automated capabilities and upskilling of colleagues in automation, enabling efficient, high-throughput, data-rich experiment...

Jessie Stow
Astex Pharmaceuticals
For outstanding contributions to drug discovery through the introduction of a viable biocatalytic workflow able to generate useful quantities of sy...

Paul Wender
Stanford University, USA
For extraordinary contributions encompassing groundbreaking advancements in synthesis, photochemistry, organometallic chemistry, medicinal chemistr...

George Burton
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
For the development of outstanding glass-blowing expertise supporting research and teaching nationally and internationally, over nearly four decades.

Claire Carmalt
University College London, UK
For contributions to the development of functional thin films as transparent conducting oxides, photocatalysts and heterojunction photoanodes for p...

Erwin Reisner
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering work on solar chemistry, developing devices that capture sunlight and produce sustainable fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide, b...

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

Dr Chris Swain
Cambridge Med Chem Consulting, 欧美AV Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group, and Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector
For outstanding service to the 欧美AV through the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group and the Biological and M...