2024 Analytical Science early career Prize: Joseph Black Prize Winner
Dr Maxie Roessler, Imperial College London
Awarded for the development of advanced electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to investigate, structurally define and exploit catalysis by chemical and biological systems.
Dr Maxie Roessler mostly grew up in Germany. A year in Italy, attending a French high school in Berlin and coming to the UK for her A-levels have contributed to her identifying as European. She studied chemistry at the University of Oxford and discovered bioinorganic chemistry during her 4th-year research project in Professor Armstrong’s group. Maxie spent one-and-a-half years in China with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, studying Mandarin and working for Bayer. She returned to Oxford for her PhD, where she learned about electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy as part of the newly emerging EPR centre. The thrill of combining tools that reveal enzyme activity (from protein-film electrochemistry) and detailed insight into electronic structure (from EPR) has remained with her ever since. During her PhD, Maxie also became fascinated by iron-sulphur clusters.
| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2023 | Professor Robert Weatherup | University of Oxford | Awarded for the development and application of interface-sensitive X-ray spectroscopies for observing reactions in atmospheric pressure and liquid environments. |
| 2022 | Dr Mathew Horrocks | The University of Edinburgh | Awarded for the development and application of single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy approaches to understand how proteins aggregate in neurodegenerative diseases. |
| 2021 | Dr Ruchi Gupta | University of Birmingham | Awarded for contributions to leaky waveguides for chemical and biological sensing. |
| 2020 | Dr Anna Regoutz | University College London | Awarded for outstanding contributions to the development and application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy in the area of electronic materials and devices. |
| 2019 |
Dr Philippe Wilson | De Montfort University | Awarded for the development and application of novel and engaging pedagogical techniques and ideas to the research-led teaching of analytical chemistry. |
| 2018 | Not awarded | ||
| 2017 | Dr Nicholle Bell | University of Edinburgh | Awarded for innovative developments in the teaching and practice of spectroscopy. |
| 2016 | Dr Kirsty Penkman | University of York | Awarded for rigorous and ground-breaking work in the field of amino acid racemisation dating and its application to earth and archaeological sciences. |
| 2015 | Not awarded | ||
| 2014 | Dr Shabaz Mohammed | University of Oxford | Awarded for his seminal contributions to the teaching and practice of analytical chemistry and his inventive developments in chromatographic separations and proteomic characterisation. |
| 2013 |
Dr Karen Faulds | University of Strathclyde | Awarded for her outstanding contributions focused on the quantitative analysis of biomolecules using surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). |
| 2012 |
Professor Aaron Wheeler | University of Toronto | Awarded for his pioneering work developing microfluidic techniques for clinical sample analysis. |
| 2011 |
Christy Haynes | University of Minnesota | Awarded for her work on leveraging the core principles of analytical chemistry to gain insight into pressing toxicological, immunological, and ecological questions. |
| 2010 |
André Simpson | University of Toronto | Awarded for his original research in the area of NMR spectrometry and especially its direct application to multiphase mixtures. |
| 2009 |
Perdita Barran | University of Edinburgh | Awarded for her developments in the field of mass spectrometry, especially ion-mobility techniques, and the application of these techniques to biological macromolecules and their gas phase interactions. |
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