The Gold Medal of Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Martyna Osada from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. The topic of the winning thesis was ‘Accurate ab initio calculations for alkali and alkaline-earth monohydrides’.

The ‘Gold Medal of Chemistry’ competition was addressed to authors of innovative undergraduate or engineering theses of cognitive as well as applied importance in the field of chemistry (and at the interface between chemistry and biology or chemistry and physics), written and defended in Poland, in the academic year 2021/2022. 

The competition is held under the honorary patronage of Professor Maciej Żylicz, President of the Foundation for Polish Science, as well as the Polish Chemical Society and the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). The organiser of the competition is the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the sponsor of the prizes is DuPont.