Dr Reisner awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize

Dr Erwin Reisner, Fellow of St John's College, has been awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr Reisner, University Lecturer in Energy, Materials and Sustainability in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge, has been a Fellow and College Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at St. John's College since 2011. He is the director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry and co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Functional and Sustainable Nano in Cambridge. Earlier in 2014, Dr Reisner also received the Royal Society of Chemistry Bioinorganic Discussion Group (IBDG) Young Investigator Award, and the Swiss Chemical Society Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize.

The Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize is awarded to up to three scientists every year for the most valuable and original investigations in chemistry and published results of those investigations. Dr Reisner was awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize for his work in combining molecular synthesis, chemical biology, and materials chemistry to develop artificial photosynthesis.