Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Katty O'Brien-Quilty
Thames Water
For proficiency in a variety of analytical techniques and serving as a fantastic advocate and brand ambassador for apprenticeships, chemistry and T...
2020 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Keary Engle and Garret Miyake
Joint winners 2025: For pioneering contributions in their respective research areas
2025 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship
Keele Team-Based Learning Group
For pioneering the integration of the active learning strategy Team-Based Learning in the curriculum of UK higher education chemistry programmes, t...
2021 Team Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Kent Local Section
For a proactive and effective approach to supporting diversity both within the committee and across their events and activities.
2023 Inspirational Committee Award
Kevin Morgan
For sustained contributions to innovation in chemistry pedagogy, commitment to inclusive education, and leadership and advocacy within the wider ch...
2025 Excellence in Higher Education Prize
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
University of Sydney
For the development of commercialised ingestible sensors for gut disorders, gas sensors for pollutants and point-of-care biosensors.
2020 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Lab on a Chip Lectureship
Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship earlier winners
2010 Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
Laboratory Scientist Degree Apprenticeship Team
For delivering outstanding outcomes for apprentices through an innovative curriculum and high-quality teaching and assessment.
2023 Team Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Laura Gagliardi
University of Chicago, USA
For contributions to the development of multireference quantum chemical approaches to describe catalysis and excited state phenomena.
2021 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
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...
2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Leeds Lab Educators
For the creation of experiments and activities that improve students’ preparation for research in organic synthesis
2022 Horizon Prizes for Education
Li Tang
EPFL, Switzerland
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
2025 Biomaterials Science Lectureship
Liam Johnson
For facilitating inclusive, inspiring educational opportunities, raising chemistry's profile and connecting schools across the Humber region with i...
2025 Excellence in Primary Education Prize
Lighting up RNA team
For the development of two bright multi-colour fluorogenic aptamer tags, and for demystifying the fluorescence activation mechanism, enabling effic...
2024 Faraday Horizon Prizes
Ludmilla Steier
University of Oxford, UK
For seminal contributions to the understanding of defect chemistry in semiconducting materials and interfacial energetics in photocatalytic and pho...
2023 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
Luisa De Cola
University of Strasbourg
For innovative studies on how photophysically active materials and nanostructures may be fabricated for deployment within active biological systems...
2024 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Lynn Kidwell
Birches Head Academy
For significant and sustained contributions to safe chemistry practical education.
2022 Excellence in Secondary and Further Education Prize
Manfred Scheer
University of Regensburg
For pioneering research on main group and organometallic chemistry.
2021 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Maria Lucana, Roberta Lucchi, Fabien Gosselet, Cristina D...
BrainBike peptidomimetic enables efficient transport of proteins across brain endothelium
2023 RSC Chemical Biology Outstanding Early Career Research Award
Marina Freitag
Newcastle University, UK
For outstanding work to develop, elaborate, and understand novel energy materials.
2022 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Yearly celebrations
25 June 2025
12 June 2024
13 June 2023
22 November 2022
07 June 2022
23 November 2021
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