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


Dr Jon Major
University of Liverpool, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize: awarded for pioneering work into the development, characterisation, and optimisation...

Professor Claire Corkhill
University of Sheffield, UK
For advances in ceramic and glass materials for the safe immobilisation of radioactive waste through fundamental understanding of surface degradati...

Emma Kendrick
University of Birmingham, UK
For discoveries and innovation in materials, manufacturing and recycling of lithium- and sodium-ion batteries.

Laura Herz
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering work advancing the development of solar cells through fundamental understanding of electronic, structural and chemical properties of...

Professor Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, UK
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...