Prize winners

Professor Sjoerd Harder

Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

For pioneering contributions in the field of s-block metal chemistry, particularly in the area of alkaline earth metal catalysis.

Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan

University of Cambridge, UK

For advancing research in functional polymers and nanocomposites, and their application in energy, sensing and biomedicine using microscale additiv...

Professor Stefanie Dehnen

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

For pioneering research on molecular multinary cluster nanoarchitectures for innovative applications in catalysts, white-light emitters, and batter...

Professor Stephen Fletcher

University of Oxford, UK

For the development of asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura-type and other catalytic cross-coupling reactions with racemic starting materials.

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...

Professor Stephen Liddle

University of Manchester, UK

For extensive contributions to understanding the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the f elements.

Professor Stephen Thomas

University of Edinburgh, UK

For the development and creative applications of novel methods to enable catalysis, using organometallic-free activation of first-row transition me...

Professor Steven Bell

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

For pioneering work in developing Raman and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for quantitative chemical analysis.

Professor Stuart Taylor

Cardiff University, UK

For pioneering work on the discovery of catalysts that have been commercialised for environmental protection, including carbon monoxide oxidation c...

Professor Sujit Datta

California Institute of Technology, USA

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...

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 Timothy Donohoe

University of Oxford, UK

For innovative development of catalytic methods that activate organic molecules by redox processes.

Professor Tom Brown

University of Oxford, UK

For major contributions in the nucleic acid field, including the synthesis of biocompatible artificial DNA, and molecular tools for genetic analysi...

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,...

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.

Professor Vasilios Stavros

University of Warwick, UK

For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.

Professor Vernon Gibson

University of Manchester, University of Oxford and Imperial College London

For seminal contributions to fundamental and applied inorganic chemistry, and for critical work in policy setting at the interface of academia with...

Professor Vijay Chudasama

University College London, UK

For the development of reagents and strategies for site-selective protein modification to enable targeted therapy, imaging and diagnostics.

Professor Volker Deringer

University of Oxford, UK

For innovative contributions to the modelling and understanding of amorphous materials.