Explore both current and past journal lectureships and awards from ACS Publications' Physical Chemistry portfolio.
Updated June 2025
The 2025-2026 winners have been announced! Read on to learn more.
ACS Publications' journal lectureships and awards recognize a mix of early career and established investigators who have made significant contributions to research in their fields.
We invite you to explore both current and past awards in Physical Chemistry.
CURRENT LECTURESHIPS AND AWARDS:
ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award
We are proud to announce Prof. Mikhail Kats (University of Wisconsin-Madison) as the winner of the 2025 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award. This award honors the contributions of an early-career individual who is doing outstanding research in the research areas covered by ACS Photonics.
Prof. Kats will present a talk on his research at SPIE Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, California.
This award is presented in partnership with ACS Photonics and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Awards
The Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Awards honor the contributions of investigators who have made a major impact on the field of physical chemistry in the research areas associated with each section of the journal—The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
We are pleased to announce this year's winners:
- Prof. Brett Savoie, University of Notre Dame, United States
- Prof. Bei Ding, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, United States
The awards will be presented at ACS Fall 2025, taking place in Washington, D.C., from August 17-21, where the winners will be invited to speak as part of the PHYS division programing.
ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science
ACS Catalysis, in partnership with the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology (CATL) and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (ORGN), is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science:
- Biocatalysis: Prof. Debasis Das, Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Heterogeneous Catalysis: Prof. Lifang Jiao, Nankai University, China
- Homogeneous Catalysis: Prof. Rui Shang, University of Tokyo, Japan
This annual award honors an individual or a collaborative team for recent and significant contributions to the field, which appeared as a publication in ACS Catalysis within the last 36 months preceding the nomination deadline (2022, 2023 or 2024).
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ACS Catalysis
ACS Catalysis publishes original research on heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, and biocatalysis. The journal includes both experimental and theoretical research on molecules, macromolecules and materials that are catalytic in nature, that is, they exhibit catalytic turnover.
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ACS Photonics
ACS Photonics is an interdisciplinary forum to communicate on the latest advances in the field of photonics, all the way from basic research to applied research and technology.
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (JPC A) publishes experimental, theoretical, and computational research on the physical chemistry of molecules, ions, radicals, clusters, and aerosols.
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (JPC B) publishes experimental, theoretical and computational research in the area of biophysics, biochemistry, biomaterials, liquids and soft matter.
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (JPC C) publishes experimental, theoretical and computational research on the physical chemistry of nano, low-dimensional and bulk materials; chemical transformations at interfaces; and energy conversion and storage.