German research award won by Professor Tom Welton

Congratulations to Head of Department and Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, Professor Tom Welton, who recently received The Paul Walden Award, which is awarded by the Ionic Liquid Priority Programme (a €12m research scheme sponsored by the German Science Foundation, the DFG, for fundamental ionic liquid research in Germany).

Members of the programme vote every year in secret for a scientist who they believe to be the most influential for their own research in ionic liquids and the outright winner this year was Professor Welton.  Part of the award includes a lecture tour in Germany and Professor Welton has just returned from a well-received and successful tour presenting his research on Ionic Liquids: Solvents for Synthesis at the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry in Leipzig, the Universität Bremen and the Universität Freiburg’s Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry.