Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of...
Professor Jonathan Reid
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
Professor Joseph Francisco
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...
Professor K. Barry
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 浪花直播 through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
Professor Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde, UK
For contributions to the field of surface enhanced spatially offset Raman scattering (SESORRS).
Professor Kenneth Suslick
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 浪花直播: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
Professor Klaus M眉llen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
For developing novel nanomaterials for single-molecule applications, organic electronics, sensing, catalysis, bio-labelling and energy conversion.
Professor Leigh Canham
University of Birmingham, UK
For pioneering work in silicon quantum dots and contributions to practical applications of silicon nanostructures in the electronics, photonics and...
Professor Liam Ball
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development and mechanistic study of new organic synthesis methods based on pnictogen elements.
Professor Madhavi Krishnan
University of Oxford, UK
For the invention of a ‘field free’ trap for confining and manipulating a single colloidal particle or molecule, enabling accurate and precise meas...
Professor Marc Vendrell
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the design and synthesis of activatable fluorophores, and their application in high-resolution biological imaging and translational medicine.
Professor Mark Grinstaff
Boston University, USA
For pioneering advances and translational research using innovative polymer platforms for new drug delivery systems and medical applications, and f...
Professor Martin Schr枚der
University of Manchester, UK
For seminal work on the design, synthesis and characterization of porous metal-organic framework materials for substrate binding and selectivity.
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 Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, UK
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...