Past and present members of the department have been hugely successful over the years in a variety of areas and these successes have been recognised via awards and prizes from many sources including prestigious international and national awards as well as recognition within the College.
The Department also has an Awards Committee, set-up specifically to identify suitable awards and nominees, support award nominations, track and coordinate nominations and publicise successes. Contact the Awards Committee if you would like to be put yourself or someone else forward for an award: ceawards@imperial.ac.uk
A selection of recent awards are listed below. Links, where available, go to related news stories and information. Please contact us if you would like to be added to this list: chemeng.comms@imperial.ac.uk
Recent awards
- Academic staff
- Undergraduate students
- Postgraduate students
- Postdoctoral research staff
- Alumni
- Professional staff
- Team/group awards
Academic staff
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2018 | President’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Research Supervision | Imperial College London | Professor Yun Xu |
| 2018 | President’s Award for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience | Imperial College London | Dr Colin Hale |
| 2018 | President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching | Imperial College London | Dr Bradley Ladewig |
| 2018 | McBain Medal & Lecture, an early career award in colloid & interface science | SCI | Dr Valeria Garbin |
| 2017 | Franklin Medal | IChemE | Professor Henricus (Hans) Michels |
| 2017 | Nicklin Medal | IChemE | Dr Kyra Sedransk Campbell |
| 2017 | MM Sharma Medal | IChemE | Professor Geoffrey Hewitt |
| 2017 | The Julia Higgins Medal and Award | Imperial College London | Dr Cleo Kontoravdi |
| 2017 | President's Medals for Outstanding Research Team | Imperial College London | Professor Andrew Livingston |
| 2017 | AIChE 35 Under 35 | AIChE | Dr Camille Petit |
| 2017 | Silver Medal for Younger Members | IOM3 | Dr Camille Petit |
| 2017 | European Science & Engineering Program | ExxonMobile | Dr Camille Petit |
| 2017 | President's Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision | Imperial College London | Professor Nina Thornhill |
| 2017 | President's Medals for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Imperial College London | Dr Daryl Williams |
| 2016 | Underwood Medal | IChemE | Professor Andrew Livingston |
| 2016 | Nicklin Medal | IChemE | Dr Qilei Song |
| 2016 | Guggenheim Medal | IChemE | Professor Martin Trusler |
| 2016 | Fellowship | Royal Society of Chemistry | Dr Roberto Rinaldi |
| 2016 | PETRONAS/RAEng Research Chair in Multiphase Flows & Thermal Management | Royal Academy of Engineering | Professor Omar Matar |
| 2016 | President’s Award and Medal for Outstanding Research Team | Imperial College London | Professor Sandro Macchietto |
| 2016 | Sir Frank Whittle Medal | Royal Academy of Engineering | Professor Roger Sargent |
| 2016 | McBain Medal | Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry | Dr Joao Cabral |
| 2016 | Imperial College Medal | Imperial College London | Professor Geoff Hewitt |
| 2016 | Fellowship | Royal Society of Chemistry | Dr Bradley Ladewig |
| 2016 | President’s Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care | Imperial College London | Dr Cleo Kontoravdi |
| 2016 | President’s Award for Excellence in Research Outstanding Research Team | Imperial College London | Professor Nina Thornhill |
| 2016 | EPSRC photo competition winner: category 'weird and wonderful' | EPSRC | Professor Omar Matar |
| 2016 | MM Sharma Medal | IChemE | Professor Roger Sargent |
| 2016 | Sargent Medal | IChemE | Professor Costas Pantelides |
| 2016 | Donald Medal | IChemE | Professor Sakis Mantalaris |
| 2016 | Fellowship (FIChemE) | IChemE | Professor Hans Michels |
| 2016 | Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Society | International Adsorption Society | Dr Ronny Pini |
| 2015 | Sir George Stokes Award | Royal Society of Chemistry | Professor Sergei Kazarian |
| 2015 | President's Medal for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Imperial College London | Professor Constantinos Pantelides |
| 2015 | President's Award for Excellence in Teaching | Imperial College London | Dr Christos Markides |
| 2015 | Sir Eric Rideal Award and Lecture | Society of Chemical Industry | Professor Paul Luckham |
| 2015 | Finalist for Emerging Technologies Competition | Royal Society of Chemistry | Dr Jason Hallett |
| 2015 | Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering | Royal Academy of Engineering | Professor Claire Adjiman |
| 2015 | Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering | Royal Academy of Engineering | Professor Nilay Shah |
| 2015 | Fellowship of the American Physical Society | American Physical Society | Professor Omar Matar |
| 2015 | CBE | Order of the British Empire | Professor Stephen Richardson |
| 2014 | Guggenheim Medal | IChemE | Professor George Jackson |
| 2014 | Nicklin Medal | IChemE | Dr Niall Mac Dowell |
| 2014 | Sir Frederick Warner Prize | IChemE | Dr Camille Petit |
| 2014 | Ambassador Prize | IChemE | Professor Paul Fennell |
| 2014 | Arnold Greene Medal | IChemE | Professor Stephen Richardson |
| 2014 | Fellowship of the American Physical Society | American Physical Society | Professor Serafim Kalliadasis |
Undergraduate students
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2017 | The Salters' Institute Graduate Prizes | The Salters' Institute | Omolegho Udugbezi |
| 2016 | Master's student paper competition (4th) | Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference | Emilie Lunddahl and Wouter Thijssen |
| 2016 | Student Activity Awards | Old Centralians' Trust / CGCU | Vatsal Shah |
| 2016 | Student Activity Awards | Old Centralians' Trust / CGCU | Justin Yong |
| 2016 | Schwarzman Scholarship | Schwarzman Scholars | Lejon Chua |
| 2015 | Salters' Graduate Prize | The Salters' Institute | Hannah Moran |
| 2015 | Student Activity Awards | Old Centralians' Trust / CGCU | Xin Ying Phang |
| 2015 | Student Activity Awards | Old Centralians' Trust / CGCU | Zheng Gu |
| 2015 | Macnab-Lacey Student Design Award | IChemE | Team 2 (Nwachukwu Uzo, Olumayowa Okulate, Priyank Shah, Leona Tan, Yash Dongre, James Ellis, Joseph Wilson, Jaipal Sachdev and Richard Chang) |
| 2014 | Foundation Awards | EDF, Institute de France European Foundation | Yehia Amar and Robert Hughes |
Postgraduate students
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2018 | SCI Scholarship | SCI | Jona Ramadani |
| 2018 | Research Travel Grant | Wiley Women in Research | Luciana Miu |
| 2018 | Outstanding Achievement Award | Chinese Government | Shiqi Wang |
| 2018 | Outstanding Poster Award | Characterisation of Porous Material 8th International Conference | Humera Ansari |
| 2016 | Student Award for Outstanding Achievement | Imperial College London | Clementine Chambon |
| 2016 | Herman Wijffels Innovation Award | Rabobank | Jiajun Cen |
| 2016 | Anglo-Thai Education Award for Excellence in Engineering and Technology | Anglo-Thai Society | Panatpong Hutacharoen |
| 2016 | Faculty of Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) | Imperial College London Faculty of Engineering | Elton Dias |
| 2016 | Students' Choice Award at the 2016 Imperial Graduate School Symposium | Imperial College London Graduate School | Lorena Fernanda dos Santos de Souza |
| 2016 | 2nd Best Poster at the IChemE Young Researchers’ Meeting (Biochemical Engineering Special Interest Group) | IChemE Biochemical Engineering Special Interest Group | Michal Kopytnski |
| 2016 | Travel Award | Old Centralians Trust | Siyan Chen |
| 2016 | Poster prize at the 22nd Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK | Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK | Shiqi Wang |
| 2016 | Academic Rep Network PG Team of the Year | Imperial College Union | PhD student-staff committee |
| 2016 | PhD symposium Awards | Department of Chemical Engineering | Various |
| 2016 | Runner-up Althea-Imperial | Imperial College London | Florence Gschwend |
| 2016 | Mayor of London's Low Carbon Entrepreneurs | Mayor of London | Ioannis Tzouganatos |
| 2015 | Best Young Chemical Engineer in Research - IChemE Global Awards 2015 | IChemE | Dr Ho Wai Shin |
| 2015 | Molecular Physics Early Career Researcher Prize | Molecular Physics | Nina Ramrattan |
| 2015 | Runner-up Althea-Imperial | Althea-Imperial | Clementine Chambon |
| 2015 | Fellowship | Echoing Green | Clementine Chambon |
| 2015 | The Qatar Energy R&D Student Awards for Post Graduate Education | Gulf Intelligence Qatar Energy R&D Forum | Ibrahim Daher |
| 2015 | Best Poster Award at ChemEngDay UK | IChemE | Manuela Nania |
| 2015 | PhD symposium Awards | Department of Chemical Engineering | Various |
| 2015 | Malcolm McIvor CPACT Prize | CPACT | Andrew Ewing |
| 2015 | Shortlisted for Academic Representation Network Postgraduate Team of the Year | Imperial College Union | PhD student-staff committee |
| 2015 | First prize for oral presentation at the UK-Mexico Biorefinery Workshop | CONACYT / British Council | Bhavish Patel |
| 2015 | Shortlisted for Young Chemical Engineer in Research Award at the IChemE Global Awards | IChemE | Bhavish Patel |
| 2015 | Best PhD thesis | Spanish Catalysis Society | Tomas Ramirez Reina |
| 2015 | Best paper in the session at the 11th Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics | International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) and the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) | Emilio Diaz Bejarano |
| 2015 | Runner up prize - Materials Literature Review Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining | Materials Science and Technology | Marie Bachelet |
| 2015 | Shortlisted for the WISE Tech Start-up Award 2015 | WISE Campaign | Clementine Chambon |
| 2015 | Santander Mobility Award | Imperial College London | Siyuan Chen |
| 2015 | EPSRC Prize Fellowship | EPSRC | Aiman Alam-Nazki |
| 2015 | Best Dissertation of the Year at the 2015 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference | Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference | Saif Al Ghafri |
| 2015 | Prize for best presentation | 4th Latin American Congress on Environmental and Algae Biotechnology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Florence Gschwend |
| 2015 | Prize for best poster presentation at the RSC Conference “Renewable chemicals from waste – securing the molecular value from waste streams” | Royal Society of Chemistry | Florence Gschwend |
| 2015 | First prize for poster presentation | BP-ICAM | Sofia Marchesini |
| 2015 | Best oral presentation at the 5th International Conference on Organic Solvent Nanofiltration | 5th International Conference on Organic Solvent Nanofiltration | Ethan Butler |
| 2015 | Qatar Petroleum Award for PhD Research Excellence in Clean Fossil Fuels | Qatar Petroleum | Xinyan Huang |
Postdoctoral research staff
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2018 | Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year | Royal Society of Chemistry | Dr Clementine Chambon |
| 2017 | Ambassador Award | IChemE | Dr Clementine Chambon |
| 2017 | IChemE Global Award: Young Researcher Award | IChemE | Dr Clementine Chambon |
| 2017 | Sir William Wakeham award | Department of Chemical Engineering | Dr Robert Woodward |
| 2017 | Sir William Wakeham award | Department of Chemical Engineering | Dr Petr Yatsyshin |
| 2016 | Sir William Wakeham award | Department of Chemical Engineering | Patrizia Marchetti |
| 2016 | Sir William Wakeham award | Department of Chemical Engineering | Agi Brand-Talbot |
| 2016 | Young Membrane Scientist Award | North American Membrane Society | Patrizia Marchetti |
| 2015 | President's Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher | Imperial College London | Agi Brand-Talbot |
| 2015 | Finalist for Emerging Technologies Competition | Royal Society of Chemistry | Agi Brand-Talbot |
| 2015 | Highly commended for Young Chemical Engineer in Research Award at the IChemE Global Awards | IChemE | Patrizia Marchetti |
| 2015 | Young Academics grants | European Membrane Society | María Jimenez Solomon |
| 2015 | Young Academics grants | European Membrane Society | Patrizia Marchetti |
| 2015 | Sir William Wakeham Award | Department of Chemical Engineering | James Kimber |
| 2015 | Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships | Royal Society | Kyra Sedransk Campbell |
| 2015 | Joint first place at Energy Sector PhD Thesis Award Competition | Royal Society of Chemistry | Lisa Kleiminger |
| 2015 | Early Career Researcher Prizes | Molecular Physics | Nina Ramrattan |
Alumni
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2016 | Qatar Petroleum Medal | Qatar Petroleum | Cheng Peng |
| 2016 | Council Medal | IChemE | Ed Daniels |
| 2016 | Damehood | Order of the British Empire | Judith Hackitt |
| 2015 | Winner Young Chemical Engineer in Research Award at the IChemE Global Awards | IChemE | Ho Wai Shin |
| 2015 | Best presentation of the session | AIChE | Qi Chen |
| 2014 | Council Medal | IChemE | Ken Morrison |
| 2014 | Sargent Medal | IChemE | Ignacio Grossman |
Professional staff
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2017 | President's Awards for Research Support Excellence | Imperial College London | Angela Lonergan |
| 2016 | President’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience | Imperial College London | Susi Underwood |
| 2016 | President’s Award for Excellence in Research Support | Imperial College London | Iain Macdonald |
| 2016 | President’s Award for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience | Imperial College London | Clemens Brechtelsbauer |
| 2016 | Fellowship | Higher Education Academy | Umang Shah |
| 2016 | Associate Fellowship | Higher Education Academy | Andrew Macey |
| 2015 | Senior Fellow | Higher Education Academy | Clemens Brechtelsbauer |
| 2015 | President's Medal for Research Support Excellence | Imperial College London | Anusha Sri-Pathmanathan |
| 2015 | President's Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care | Imperial College London | Andreas Kogelbauer |
Team/group awards
| Year | Award | Awarding body | Awardee(s) |
| 2018 |
President's Award for Excellence in External Collaboration and Partnerships |
Imperial College London |
Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) |
| 2017 | President's Medal for Excellence in External Collaboration and Partnerships | Imperial College London |
Dr Daryl Williams and the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant Team |
| 2017 | IChemE Global Award: Training and Development Award | IChemE | Carbon Capture Pilot Plant team |
| 2016 | 9th Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge | AIChE | Carmelo Herdes, Åsmund Ervik, Andrés Mejía and Erich Muller |
| 2016 | ClimateLaunchpad EU Finals (3rd) | Climate-KIC | Florence Gschwend, Agi Brandt-Talbot and Jason Hallett |
| 2016 | Outstanding Paper Award in the Thermal Management and Control session | 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics | Laura Lanchas-Fuentes, Emilio Diaz-Bejarano, Professor Sandro Macchietto and Francesco Coletti |
| 2015 | Shortlisted for Research Project of the Year Award at the IChemE Global Awards | IChemE | Andrew Livingston & Santanu Karan |
| 2015 | Shortlisted for Research Project of the Year Award at the IChemE Global Awards | IChemE | Sandro Macchietto, Francesco Coletti, Sergei Kazarian, Geoff Hewitt, George Jackson, Christos Markides, Omar Matar, Marcos Millan-Agorio, Erich Muller |
| 2014 | Silver Athena SWAN award | Athena SWAN | Department of Chemical Engineering |
Awards Committee
The Department has an Awards Committee, set up specifically to identify suitable awards and nominees, support award nominations, track and coordinate nominations and publicise successes.
Contact the Awards Committee if you would like to put someone else, or yourself, forward for an award: ceawards@imperial.ac.uk