Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 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.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
Explore all winners
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Edward Pyzer-Knapp
Xyme, UK
For uniting chemistry, physics and artificial intelligence into a powerful new approach for molecular discovery and innovation.
2026 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Iain McCulloch
Princeton University
For advances in the design, synthesis and innovative application of functional materials in optics, electronics, and energy.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Ali Tavassoli
University of Southampton
For the high-throughput intracellular production and screening of cyclic peptide libraries, and their application in the identification of inhibito...
2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
For interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Chris Abell
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering work on fragment-based drug discovery and microfluidic microdroplets.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
For forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling capability in the life sciences.
2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Edward Tate
Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute
For chemical biology approaches to reveal unique insights in protein post-translational modification, and for delivering chemical probes and first-...
2026 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Eleanor Schofield
Mary Rose Trust
For contributions to understanding degradation processes in archaeological materials, cultural heritage science and conservation.
2021 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Emma Raven
University of Bristol, UK
For seminal contributions to understanding the roles of heme in biology.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Helen Hailes
University College London, UK
For the design of innovative biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic strategies for molecular assembly, and the enzymatic upcycling of waste biomass and br...
2026 Interdisciplinary Prizes
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...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Michael George
University of Nottingham, UK
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nguyễn T K Thanh
University College London, UK
For outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on fundamental understanding of chemical syntheses, physical studies of plasmonic and m...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nora de Leeuw
University of Leeds, UK
For the development and application of computational chemistry to enable atomic-level insights into biomedical materials for in vivo and nature-ins...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
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.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Serena Cussen
University College Dublin
For interdisciplinary and original contributions to the development of new functional materials for energy storage and in-depth study of their loca...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Sébastien Perrier
University of Warwick, UK
For interdisciplinary research in the synthesis and applications of therapeutic materials.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Yearly celebrations
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