University of Warwick researcher wins Institute of Physics 2025 Medal and Prize
Dr Raj Pandya from the Department of Chemistry has been named as this year's recipient of the Henry Moseley Medal and Prize.
The Institute of Physics (IOP) Henry Moseley Medal and Prize is presented for exceptional early-career contributions to experimental physics. Dr Pandya has received this honour from the IOP for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of coupled charge and structural dynamics in organic and inorganic nanomaterials, including the development of new enabling spectroscopic tools.
Dr Pandya joined the Department of Chemistry at Warwick as Assistant Professor in January 2024. He leads a diverse and creative group of scientists in the iCCD Lab, that is ultimately aiming to help design new chemistries for clean energy generation, conversion, and storage.
Commenting on his award, Dr Raj Pandya, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick said: “I am really grateful to the IOP for this recognition. The award also recognises the amazing people I get to work with every day and the wonderful mentors and supervisors around the world who have supported and given me the freedom to pursue my curiosity in research questions.”
Raj’s research explores how charges move around in material systems – with the aim of building improved links between material structure and performance in a range of technologies. By developing advanced imaging and spectroscopy tools for probing time-resolved chemical dynamics, he has made it possible to watch everything from catalysts to materials for the next-generation batteries ‘in action’.
He has also worked to bring his tools to a wider audience through working with optical instrumentation companies and many of his results have been featured in leading research journals including Nature, Science, Nature Materials and Nature Nanotechnology.
Professor Nikola Chmel, Head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick said: “I am delighted by this recognition of Raj's exciting work in the field of advanced imaging and ultrafast spectroscopy. Raj is a fantastic early career colleague and researcher. This prize also highlights our flourishing collaboration between colleagues in Chemistry and Physics, here at Warwick and beyond.”
The IOP is the professional body and learned society for physics, and the leading body for practising physicists, in the UK and Ireland. Its annual awards proudly reflect the wide variety of people, places, organisations, and achievements that make physics such an exciting discipline.
Congratulating this year’s Award winners, Institute of Physics President Professor Michele Dougherty CBE FRS FInstP FRAS FRSSAf said: “On behalf of the Institute of Physics, I want to congratulate all of this year’s award winners on the significant and positive impact they have made in their profession, be it as a researcher, teacher, industrialist, technician or apprentice, and I hope they are incredibly proud of their achievements.
“I hope our winners appreciate they are playing an important role in this community and know how proud we are to celebrate their successes – I hope their stories will help to inspire current and future generations of scientists.”
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14 October 2025