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Professor Vivian Yam Wing-wah, Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong, was chosen as the winner of the Ludwig Mond Award 2015 by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom.

A winner is selected each year by RSC’s Dalton Division Awards Committee, for his/her outstanding research in any aspect of inorganic chemistry.

Professor Yam was awarded for her work on the innovative design of new strategies utilising non-covalent metal-metal interactions as spectroscopic reporters for host-guest interactions and microenvironment changes, and for chemosensing and biological assays. 

Professor Yam has been delighted in receiving the award. She said: “I am honoured to be recognised by RSC for the second time and am flattered to join my distinguished peers on the list of past recipients of the Award.” 

In 2005/06, Professor Yam was awarded the Centenary Lectureship and Medal (now re-named as the RSC Centenary Prize) by RSC. The prizes are awarded to outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas to give lectures in the British Isles.

The Ludwig Mond Award consists of £2000 and a medal. The awardee will be invited to give lectures at UK universities.

Ludwig Mond Award 2015 Winner webpage:
http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/LudwigMondAward/2015-Winner.asp

Biography of Professor Vivian W.W. Yam
Professor Vivian W.W. Yam is currently the Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor at HKU. She was elected to Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 at the age of 38 as the youngest member of the Academy, Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and Fellow of the TWAS in 2006. She was the Laureate of the 2011 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award and recipient of the 2005/06 RSC Centenary Medal, 2005 State Natural Science Award, 2006 Japanese Photochemistry Association Eikohsha Award, 2014 Chinese Chemical Society-China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) Chemistry Contribution Prize, Docteur Honoris Causa (Université de Rennes 1, 2013), 2013 Seaborg Lectureship (UC Berkeley), 2011 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, 2007 Hong Kong Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, 2000-01 Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, 2002 Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong and 2008 Hong Kong Outstanding Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs Award. Her research interests include inorganic and organometallic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and metal-based molecular functional materials for sensing, organic optoelectronics and energy research.

 Please click here for the major research areas of Professor Vivian W.W. Yam.

About the Ludwig Mond Award
Established in 1981 following an endowment from ICI (Imperial Chemical Industry), this award commemorates the chemist and industrialist Dr Ludwig Mond. The award was previously called the Ludwig Mond Lectureship but was re-named in 2008 as the Ludwig Mond Award. For details, please visit:
http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/LudwigMondAward/Index.asp.

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