Warwick chemistry professor honoured with prestigious international award
Professor Julie Macpherson, Department of Chemistry at University of Warwick has been awarded the 2025 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award for her outstanding contributions to electrochemical analysis and BDD sensors.
On receiving this award, Professor Macpherson said: “I’m delighted to have received the 2025 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award. It’s a testament to the hard work and commitment of the amazing group members I have had the pleasure of working with past and present. Without them, we would not have been able to make the advances in measurement science that we have.”
Professor Macpherson is being recognised for pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material characterisation and electrochemical nanostructure synthesis. She will present her work and receive her award at today’s ACS Publications Webinar Series | Global Innovators: Breakthroughs in Sensors Research.
Her work focuses on the use of carbon-based materials in electrochemical systems for a variety of applications, including environmental monitoring and electrochemical energy storage. One of the key materials being used is lab-grown boron-doped diamond (BDD), an electrochemically active form of diamond.
Professor Pat Unwin, Head of the Department of Chemistry at Warwick said: “I am personally delighted that Julie has been awarded this prestigious lectureship by the American Chemical Society, which recognizes her pioneering work across analytical science, especially on the rational development of carbon-based electrode materials. Julie’s work in electrochemistry is important as it is providing new electrodes that have important properties for a wide range of applications, from sensing to synthesis, energy storage, catalysis and for cleaning water.”
This annual award honours the contributions of an individual from each of three major geographic regions who has made a major recent impact in the field of measurement science. Julie has been chosen as the winner from the Europe, Middle East, Africa region.
This award is jointly presented by five major journals of measurement science under ACS and the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. Julie and the other two winners additionally received $1,500 and a plaque to commemorate this achievement.
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Notes for Editors:
Julie's Award Lecture can be watched here: ACS Publications Webinar | Global Innovators: Breakthroughs in Sensors Research
About the ACS:
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About the Award:
This Lectureship is awarded by ACS Measurement Science Au, ACS Sensors, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Proteome Research, and the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, in partnership with the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry
These awards honour the contributions of one individual from each of the three major geographic regions – the Americas, Europe/ Middle East/Africa, and Asia-Pacific – who have made a major recent impact in the field of measurement science.