Congratulations to Dr Stephen Fielden for his award. Stephen won the Thieme Chemistry Journals award for his work in organic chemistry.
The Molecular Sciences building at Birmingham where the School of Chemistry is housed.
Dr Stephen Fielden won the Thieme Chemistry Journals award for his work in organic chemistry. His research spans supramolecular chemistry and polymer nanotechnology. Stephen has applied organic chemical reactions to produce kinetically controlled functional assemblies.
His group’s overall research vision is to emulate intricate biological processes using simple chemistry. This will allow a new generation of materials to be developed that are capable of performing complex functions, such as self-repair and responsiveness to external conditions.
The Thieme Chemistry Journals Award is presented every year to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career as assistant or junior professors.
The awardees are selected exclusively by the editorial board members of Thieme chemistry journals who constantly watch out for promising, young individuals working in chemical synthesis and catalysis or closely related areas of organic chemistry.
Since 1999 – when the award was given for the first time to young researchers – it is its aim to send a sign of recognition and career encouragement to the new generation of organic chemists.
I am really delighted to receive this award. As I establish my research group, it is brilliant to see work with various colleagues and collaborators being recognised. My team will continue to show that applying organic chemistry in weird and wonderful ways is a fantastic way to develop exciting new materials. I’d like to both everyone involved in my research and also my mentors for their unwavering support.
Since 2025, Dr Fielden is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow within the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this, he held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the university.
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow
Staff profile for Stephen Fielden.
