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


Dr Jenny Zhang
University of Cambridge, UK
For her advancement of bio-photoelectrochemistry.

E-TAC water splitting
For the development of an innovative membraneless water splitting technology for low-cost production of green hydrogen at scale.

Education Community Scotland Committee
For supporting and representing teachers to policymakers, influencing how chemistry is taught in Scotland with notable impact on the curriculum.

Electrical Transport Spectroscopy
For the development of electron transport microscopy to experimentally determine the platinum-surface hydronium pKa and its role in pH-dependent hy...

Electrocatalytic Urea Synthesis Team
For the development of efficient electrocatalysts to support conversion of nitrogen towards a more sustainable and economical method of producing u...

Electron Bifurcation
For discovering the essential structural and redox potential landscapes that are required to generate high-efficiency electron bifurcation reaction...

Emily Rose
Pfizer, USA
For outstanding contributions towards the development of synthetic routes and processes for emerging medicines via autonomous high-throughput exper...

Enzyme Discovery
For the discovery and engineering of novel enzymes, creating more sustainable pathways to biologically and industrially important molecules.

EPSRC NRF for EPR
2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for...

Eric Appel
Stanford University, USA
Winner 2023: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.

Exploring Everyday 海角社区
For the development and significant impact of an innovative free online course designed to aid the transition to study chemistry and related degree...

Federico Bella and Grace Han
For outstanding work in the early stages of their careers.

Professor Fidele Ntie-Kang
University of Buea, Cameroon
For making a significant contribution to a natural product related area of the chemical sciences in their independent research careers.

Sumanjot Kaur, Jingyi Chen and Ali Ubeyitogullari
Paper: Formation of nanoporous aerogels from defatted rice bran via supercritical carbon dioxide drying

Frank Leibfarth
University of North Carolina, USA
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career

Functional Framework Materials: Design and Characterisati...
For seminal contributions to in situ and operando characterisation of porous materials and catalysts for the binding, capture and separation of fue...

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...

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.

Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...

Gideon Davies and Paul Walton
For the team's ground-breaking synergistic studies of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase enzymes and insights into the copper histidine brace activ...