The Emerald Isle Conference on Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 9–11 April 2025. Green Chemistry, Catalysis Science & Technology and RSC Sustainability were delighted to provide poster prize awards at the event and we would like to congratulate our winners!
Learn more about our poster prize awardees below:
Green Chemistry Poster Prize Megan A. Goss (University of York, UK) Megan Goss received an MChem (Hons) in Chemistry, Green Principles and Sustainable Processes in 2023 from the University of York. She is currently in the second year of her PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Helen Sneddon and Prof. Avtar Matharu at the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York, and Dr. William Whittingham and Dr. Chris Lindsay at Syngenta. To meet the demands of an ever-increasing global population, her research tackles the global grand challenge of food security by utilising bio-derived feedstocks to design and synthesise prospective crop protection products. As an initial screen for relevance, the designed structures are compared to commercial products by principal component analysis based on their predicted physical properties, before synthetic work begins.
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Catalysis Science & Technology Poster Prize Jelmer T. Meijer (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Jelmer T. Meijer is a second year PhD student at the University of Groningen, working under the supervision of Prof. dr. Ben L. Feringa. He obtained his BSc degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Groningen. After completing his bachelors, he stayed at the same university for his MSc in chemical engineering. In 2023 he started his PhD focusing on biologically sourced adaptive coatings. The goal of this research is to produce sustainable and smart coatings from biobased resources with additional functionalities that can be triggered using external stimuli.
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RSC Sustainability Poster Prize Sahar Gholami (University of Manchester, UK) Sahar Gholami is a Postgraduate Researcher and Teaching Associate in Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. Her PhD research focuses on developing green processes for the selective recycling of platinum group metals (PGMs), aiming to close the material loop through the use of novel bio-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs), a class of environmentally friendly solvents. In her teaching role, she specialises in process design and simulation, inspiring future engineers with a strong emphasis on sustainability and real-world impact.
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Please join us in celebrating these winners and their excellent poster contributions.
Photos of the poster prizes being awarded at the Emerald Isle conference to Megan Goss (left), Jelmer Meijer (right) by Patricia Marr, Andrew Marr and Panagiotis Manesiotis.
