AMBER Researcher awarded the 2025 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize

9 June 2025

AMBER Researcher Dr Muhammad Muddasar has been awarded the 2025 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize. Based in the University of Limerick, Dr Muddasar works with AMBER Funded Investigator Professor Maurice N. Collins, with his work focusing on Sustainable materials for energy harvesting and storage.

The 2025 prize was kindly sponsored by Henkel, and includes an award of €2,000. Having been selected as the winner of the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize, Dr Muddasar’s name was put forward by the RIA for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists. In April 2025 Dr Muddasar was announced as one of five winners of the 2025 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists, selected from 49 submissions across 18 countries. Marking the first time since 2017 that an Ireland-nominated candidate has been awarded the prize, Dr Muddasar will now present his research at the upcoming IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in Kuala Lumpar in July, putting Irish postgraduate research on the world stage.

The award is named in honour of the famous Irish x-ray crystallographer, Kathleen Lonsdale, who was born in Newbridge, Country Kildare, on 28 January 1903.

Image captions:

1 – Dr Hugh Fay, Henkel Ireland, with prize winner Dr Muhammad Muddasar and Royal Irish Academy Secretary for Policy and International Relations, Mary Doyle.

2 – Dr Muhammad Muddasar, winner of the 2025 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize, with his prize certificate