Warner Medal

Recognising emerging leaders in sustainable engineering

Sir Frederick Warner was a former IChemE president (1966), a founding member of Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK and a key member of the team investigating the Chernobyl disaster. He received many awards and accolades during his long and distinguished career. The Warner Medal was set up in 2010 to recognise the efforts of chemical engineers following in his footsteps.

The Warner Medal is open to nominees from both academia and industry and recognises early career individuals demonstrating exceptional promise and impactful contributions to clean energy, sustainability, and climate solutions through chemical engineering innovation, research, outreach, and advocacy.

It is considered to be an ‘early career’ award, meaning nominees must be within the first 15 years of their professional career at the point nominations close. Periods ‘away’ from professional chemical engineering activities will be taken into consideration when scoring a nomination.

Nominations for the Warner Medal will be considered by a panel of experts, who will recommend a winner to IChemE’s Medals and Prizes Committee for ratification.

Judging criteria

Criteria the Warner Medal will be judged against are:

1. contribution to scientific advances - significantly moving the state of the art on the specific topic
2. originality and impact of the contribution (particularly in advancing clean energy)
3. value of outreach and/or advocacy work undertaken by the nominee
4. number and quality of relevant publications and/or technical documents produced (can include conference appearances).

How to submit a nomination

To make a nomination for the Warner Medal, open the online nomination form and complete the information requested, paying attention to the criteria the medal will be judged against.

Please note the following:

• additional documents submitted outside the information provided in the nomination form will not be considered by the judges (unless specified otherwise)
• we do not accept self-nominations
• we do not accept nominations for sitting members of the Board of Trustees
• unless indicated otherwise, medals/prizes are generally awarded to individuals – a single medal shall be presented in all cases.

Contact medals@icheme.org for more information.