External Recognition of PhD, PDRA and Technical Excellence

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Posted on Friday 1 August 2025

We celebrate the excellent science our Department’s PhD, PDRA and technical co-workers do by recognising the prizes and awards they have won in the first half of 2025.

Over the first half this year many of our PhD, PDRA and technical colleagues attended conferences to present their work as posters or talks. Of course, everyone’s contribution is important, and the excellent quality of these presentations has been recognised by over 20 awards and prizes. These prizes have been awarded for research in the Chemical sciences from across all our major research themes.

We are proud to celebrate:

Amy Farmer (Hunt group) Poster prize - Annual Northern Universities Meeting on Chemical Physics (ANUMOCP), Leeds University

Kristof Altus (Weller group) Poster prize – RSC Dalton Conference Warwick; invited talk at the UK catalysis Hub conference

Salome Usakuhyel Raymond (Dillon group) Poster prize - Annual Northern Universities Meeting on Chemical Physics

Megan Goss (Sneddon/Matharu groups) Poster prize - Emerald Isle Conference on Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Hannah Chapman (Sneddon Group) Poster prize - CheM62 Network Meeting

James Jeffries (Fascione group) Best poster prize - EuroCarb22 (Gdansk)

Jack Heaton (Weller group) Poster prize - UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2025

Sophie Barber (Buchard Group) Prize for best oral presentation - Macro Group UK Young Researchers Meeting (University of Sheffield)

Rebecca Willans (Willans/Mosely/Weller groups) Sustainability poster prize – RSC Dalton Conference Warwick & best poster at Solutions in Science

Madeleine Marnell (Avestro group) UK Porous Materials Poster Prize

Eve Grant (Edwards group) Oral presentation prize - RMetS Early Career and Student Conference 2025

Salome Usakuhyel Raymond (Dillon/Sneddon groups) Poster prize - Annual Northern Universities Meeting of Chemical Physics at University of Leeds

Sean Adeoti Thompson (Duhme-Klair group) Best Poster Award - International Conference on Repurposed and Artificial Enzymes 2025

Ella Reid (Parkin group) Best talk - Butler Meeting

Gowri Manohari Satish (Bruce group) Poster prize - RSC Dalton Community Northern Regional Meeting in Lancaster

Richard Gammons and Rebecca Sutton (Green Chemistry & Environment and Geography) Highly commended and recognised as technical excellence in sustainability within higher education and research at the Papin Awards Ceremony - HETS2025

Sara Bonfante (Lynam and Slattery groups) RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize; Invited talk at RSC Dalton Conference Warwick; Prix de these Division de Chimie de Coordination

Morwan Osman (York Bioenergetics Lab) Best Oral Presentation - GRC Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development

Congratulations to them, and all of our PhD, PDRA and technical colleagues, who presented their cutting-edge research at conferences so-far this year.