Ruth Lynden-Bell has been awarded the Paul Walden Award for 2011 for her work on ionic liquids by the German Research Foundation.
The winner of the award is chosen by a vote among the leaders of all 30 projects in the Foundation’s ionic liquids priority programme. These projects cover the whole span of ionic liquids research, with topics covering synthetic, electrochemical, physic-chemical and theoretical aspects of the field.
As well as receiving a cash prize, Ruth will visit Germany in 2012 for a lecture tour of the country’s ionic liquid community.
The annual award was created in 2008 to honour international scientists for their research on ionic liquids. The previous winners are Hiro Ohno of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, John Wilkes of the United States Air Force Academy, and Tom Welton of Imperial College.