Awardees in Chemistry and Materials Sciences

We are pleased to announce that 35 scholars in the field of chemistry and materials sciences have been selected as the 2026 Travel Award winners.

Alloys:

• Shuyan Zhang, National Institute of Extremely-Weak Magnetic Field Infrastructure, China;
• Tomás Soria Biurrun, Centro Tecnológico Ceit, Spain.

Atmosphere:

• José Manuel Duarte da Cruz, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal.

Batteries:

• Ziqing Wang, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Buildings:

• Hao Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China;
• Mehdi Chougan, Cardiff University, UK.

Catalysts:

• Zhenyu Wang, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

ChemEngineering:

• Loveille Jun Gonzaga, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Chemistry:

• Natalia Manousi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Coatings:

• Andrea Cristoforetti, University of Trento, Italy;
• Cristina Jiménez Marcos, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

Colloids and Interfaces:

• Lukasz Witkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Energies:

• Francesca Vecchi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy;
• Jinhao Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Gels:

• Ana Iglesias-Mejuto, ¹ University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; ² Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

IJMS:

• Haopeng Yu, John Innes Centre, UK;
• Rachel Crossland, Newcastle University, UK;
• Xiaohui Ju, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA.

Lubricants:

• Ivor Ilic, ¹ Nottingham Trent University, UK; ² University of Nottingham, UK;
• Mateus da Silva Cardoso, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Materials:

• Julia Siminska-Stanny, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium;
• Laura Simonini, University of Trento, Italy.

Membranes:

• Katarzyna Knozowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

Metals:

• Jiasheng Wang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China;
• Rui F.V. Sampaio, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Minerals:

• Ben Latimer, University of St Andrews, UK;
• Lindsay Podjasek, Rutgers University, USA.

Molbank:

• Lori Gonnet, University of Birmingham, UK.

Molecules:

• Apostolia Tsiasioti, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
• Kenta Kawashima, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Nanomaterials:

• Matteo Tollemeto, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark.

Polymers:

• Helena P. Felgueiras, University of Minho, Portugal.

Separations:

• Marianna Ntorkou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Solids:

• Xue Li, The University of Manchester, UK.