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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.
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Dr Jane Roberts
For outstanding service to the 新月直播app下载 through our member communities and governance groups.
2023 Award for Exceptional Service
Dr Jennifer Garden
University of Edinburgh, UK
For contributions to the advancements in homo- and hetero-metallic catalysis for sustainable polymerisation chemistry.
2021 Dalton early career prize: Sir Edward Frankland Prize
Dr Jennifer Kingston
AstraZeneca, UK
For leading the delivery of a cutting-edge purification laboratory, championing sustainable automated purification strategies, and developing techn...
2025 Technical Excellence Prizes
Dr Jenny Zhang
University of Cambridge, UK
For her advancement of bio-photoelectrochemistry.
2020 Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal
Dr Jiangnan Li
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of stable porous materials for the capture and conversion of NOx and SOx.
2021 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
Dr Jo Montgomery
Dr Jo 新月直播app下载 Solutions, Babraham Institute
For a significant contribution to STEM education in the last 20+ years, inspiring children and supporting teachers in the UK and around the world.
2024 Excellence in Primary Education Prize
Dr Jon Major
University of Liverpool, UK
For pioneering work into the development, characterisation, and optimisation of inorganic thin-film solar cells and developing antimony selenide ph...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Dr Jordi Bures
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of novel kinetic analyses to streamline the elucidation of reaction mechanisms.
2020 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Dr Josef Boronski
University of Oxford, UK
For groundbreaking investigations into actinide-cyclobutadienyl chemistry, leading to the preparation of a σ-aromatic cluster featuring direct acti...
2023 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
Dr Joseph Parr
Monash University, Australia
For advances in alkaline-earth metal chemistry, including the synthesis of unprecedented metal-alkane and metal-formyl complexes, and C–F and C–C b...
2026 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize
Dr Josh Abbenseth
The University of Manchester, UK
For advancing the chemistry of geometrically constrained heavy pnictogen pincer compounds to access exotic radical states and unique transition met...
2026 Dalton early career prize: Sir Edward Frankland Prize
Dr Joshua Makepeace
University of Birmingham, UK
For advancing ammonia-based fuels and hydrogen storage through the use of metal amide and imide materials, ammonia synthesis and decomposition cata...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize
Dr Julia Sarju
University of York, UK
For making a difference to the lives of students through outstanding and innovative teaching, direct interventions and best practice around disabil...
2021 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Dr Julie Hyde
University of Sheffield, UK
For her support of graduate teaching assistants, development of a new undergraduate teaching laboratory programme within the UK/China degree progra...
2024 Excellence in Higher Education Prize
Dr Katherine Wheelhouse
GlaxoSmithKline
For contributions to the application and industrialisation of chemical catalysis in the pharmaceutical industry in the pursuit of more sustainable...
2022 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
For innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study of three-dimensional chemical switches.
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Dr Louis Morrill
Cardiff University, UK
For the development of sustainable methodologies for synthesis which employ catalysts that are metal-free or based on earth-abundant first row tran...
2022 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Dr Lucia Burgio
Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
For the application of analytical chemistry to cultural heritage research, including the discovery of new historic pigments and the development of...
2026 Analytical 新月直播app下载 open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Dr Lucy Clark
University of Birmingham, UK
For outstanding contributions to the discovery, characterisation and understanding of quantum magnets.
2022 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Dr Manuel M眉ller
King's College London, UK
For contributions to the field of posttranslational modifications, especially the use of protein chemistry to gain insight into molecular mechanism...
2021 Chemistry Biology Interface early career prize: Norman Heatley Award
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