Prize winners

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

Winner 2024 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research

Professor Thomas Penfold

Newcastle University, UK

For contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional organic and metal-organic systems.

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

For groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage, electronic devices, and sustai...

Professor Varinder Aggarwal

University of Bristol, UK

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.

Professor Wilfred van der Donk

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

For the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphona...

Professor Will Unsworth

University of York, UK

For the development of creative, modular strategies for the synthesis of biologically important small molecules, particularly those based on biocat...

Professor William Griffith

Imperial College London and RSC Historical Group

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our Historical Group and for advising on activities celebrating the history of th...

Professor Xingyu Jiang

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

For molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health

Professor Yimon Aye

University of Oxford, UK

For pioneering contributions in the development of live-cell-based tools able to elucidate, reprogramme, and chemically manipulate biological signa...