Our 2025 prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
We have collected some of the exciting research recently published by our winners across our journals portfolio. This collection showcases the wide range of research that our winners have published across the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journals portfolio and will be free to access until 30 September 2025.
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Our Horizon Prize winners
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...
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: Robert Boyle Prize
Harm Reduction
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on pol...
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: Sir George Stokes Prize
Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations Team
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of an industrially-applicable hydrogenase for mild and selective hydrog...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award
The Lipidomics Team
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a comparative lipidomics platform, combining chemical synthesis, bio...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award
Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize
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...
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize
Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: awarded for defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Prize
UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: awarded for advancing circular economy solutions for the UK chemical industry through ch...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Prize
The PERFORM COVID-19 Team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for advancing the understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on the...
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize
The BoostCrop team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and...
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize
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...
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek Prize
AI for Materials
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software, its application to data-dr...
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek Prize
Our Inclusion and Diversity Prize winners
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting sy...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in g...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
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Our Research & Innovation Prize winners
Dr Rebecca Beveridge
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Joseph Black Prize: awarded for the application of mass spectrometry methods to the structural characterisation of dynamic protein conformatio...
2025 Analytical Science early career Prize: Joseph Black Prize
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize: awarded for innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Xingyu Jiang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2025 Theophilus Redwood Prize: awarded for molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health
2025 Analytical Science open Prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Anita Maguire
University College Cork, Ireland
2025 Bader Prize: awarded for the development of a diverse range of synthetic organic methodologies and protocols, and their applications to medici...
2025 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and f...
2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Dr Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Norman Heatley Award: awarded for pioneering the development of computational methods for antibody design and optimisation, enabling transform...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface early career Prize: Norman Heatley Award
Professor Zoë Waller
University College London, UK
2025 Jeremy Knowles Award: awarded for contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context usin...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface mid-career Prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Khorana Prize: awarded for groundbreaking and highly influential work on the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleic acids, which has transf...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface open Prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mecha...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Dr Clare Bakewell
King's College London, UK
2025 Sir Edward Frankland Prize: awarded for advances in the chemistry of organo-Al(III) and Mg(II) compounds, and their applications in small-mole...
2025 Dalton early career Prize: Sir Edward Frankland Prize
Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize: awarded for significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-fr...
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
Professor Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize: awarded for insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
2025 Dalton mid-career Prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
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...
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
Dr Fanran Meng
University of Sheffield, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize: awarded for developing net-zero pathways for the chemical industry through emission...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize
Dr Jon Major
University of Liverpool, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize: awarded for pioneering work into the development, characterisation, and optimisation...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Environment Prize: awarded for deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open Prize: Environment Prize
Dr Chun Ann Huang
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Marlow Prize: awarded for pioneering the combination of imaging with X-ray Compton scattering and computed tomography (XCS-CT), and novel proc...
2025 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Bourke-Liversidge Prize: awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional or...
2025 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
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...
2025 Faraday open Prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study...
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Guanjie He
University College London, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conve...
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Amit Kumar
University of St Andrews, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the development of green processes based on catalytic (de)hydrogenation for the...
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Green Circular Solvent Team
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize: awarded for a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-...
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling...
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize
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...
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize
Dr Emrys Evans
Swansea University, UK
2025 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize: awarded for pioneering contributions in the development, characterisation and exploitation of luminesc...
2025 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2025 Peter Day Prize: awarded for groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage,...
2025 Materials Chemistry mid-career Prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
2025 de Gennes Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
2025 Materials Chemistry open Prize: de Gennes Prize
Dr Mattia Silvi
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Hickinbottom Prize: awarded for the development of creative synthetic strategies through the design of novel radical acceptors.
2025 Organic Chemistry early career Prize: Hickinbottom Prize
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.
2025 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize: Robert Robinson Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2025 Pedler Prize: awarded for insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
2025 Organic Chemistry open Prize: Pedler Prize
Dr Florence Huynh
Polymateria Ltd, UK
2025 Rising Star in Industry Prize: awarded for delivering solutions to global plastic pollution, progressing technical understanding of plastic bi...
2025 Rising Star in Industry Prize
Christina Dumitriu Jackson
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for excellence in peptide chemistry, and championing sustainability and STEM advocacy.
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Mia Outram
No7 Beauty Company , UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for undertaking the key formulation work in developing a new high SPF skincare product, and representing apprent...
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Professor Franziska Schoenebeck
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences: awarded for highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reacti...
2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Dr Jennifer Kingston
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for leading the delivery of a cutting-edge purification laboratory, championing sustainable automated puri...
2025 Technical Excellence Prize
Dr Jack Woolley
University of Warwick, UK
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for providing outstanding technical and scientific support to users of the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Sp...
2025 Technical Excellence Prize
EPSRC NRF for EPR
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for...
2025 Technical Excellence Prize
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry
Our Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Dr James Redman
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the Chemical Biology and Bioorganic G...
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
Dr Graeme Turnbull
Northumbria University, UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our member communities and governance...
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
Particle Characterisation Group
2025 Inspirational Committee Award: awarded for proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.
2025 Inspirational Committee Award