YEAIS winners 2026

The Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability 2026 attracted over 100 outstanding entries, an incredible achievement! A huge congratulations to all our winners and highly commended finalists for their inspiring work.

Age category winners

The top three awards recognise the highest scoring entry in each age category.

Winner: PE(r)Fect Pack: Advancing Circular Pharmaceutical Packaging by Laura Thompson, University of Bath

Winner: Development of photoelectrochemical reactors for solar hydrogen production by George Creasey, Imperial College London

Winner: High Pressure Dewatering Rolls (HPDR) Mk-II: A Step-Change Technology for Sustainable Mineral Tailings Dewatering and Water Recovery by Sajid Hassan, The University of Melbourne

Individual category winners

Eligible presentations were classified into eleven categories aligned to IChemE’s priority topics.

Winner: Multi-Functional Regression (MFR) using Python for Petroleum Property Inferential Development by Karthigesan Velautham, Malaysian Refining Company

Highly commended:

Winner: Development of photoelectrochemical reactors for solar hydrogen production by George Creasey, Imperial College London

Highly commended:

Gisoo Pasha Moghaddam, AstraZeneca

Winner: NanoSense: An Electrospun Nanofibre-Integrated Hyaluronic Acid Microneedle Patch for Localized Delivery of Diclofenac by Priyarubhini Krishnan & Angeline Sue Anne Sia, Universiti Malaya

Winner: Small-scale testing solving global emissions problems: Insights into catalytic N2O decomposition by Alina Tony and Theo Bockmuehl, Johnson Matthey

Highly commended:

Winner: XElectric FS: Project XE01 by Rosaleen Knox, Sebastian Ridley, Vedaant Raghunath, Alexander Barton & Jasper Clark, University of Exeter

Winner: Design of a Community Garden Project for the Student Community at the University of Strathclyde by Lewis Philips and Reuben Selman, University of Strathclyde

Winner: CaviTrace: Hydrodynamic Cavitation-Based Rapid Gram by Setornam Gli, Newcastle University

Winner: High Pressure Dewatering Rolls (HPDR) Mk-II: A Step-Change Technology for Sustainable Mineral Tailings Dewatering and Water Recovery by Sajid Hassan, The University of Melbourne

Winner: PE(r)Fect Pack: Advancing Circular Pharmaceutical Packaging by Laura Thompson, University of Bath

Highly commended:

Evangeline Leong, Monash University

UK Winner: Natural Coagulation for Clean Water: A Moringa Oleifera Based Treatment System for Low-Resource Communities by Ryan Oatley and Soluna Stojanovska, University of Leeds

AUS Winner: A Year in Action - Hybrid MABR-MBR WWTP in Te Kauwhata New Zealand by Sela Maka and Emma Cross, Watercare Services and Veolia Water Technologies

Highly commended:

Abdulrahman Mohamed Mohamud, Russell McDonnell and Ubaydullah Ahmed, Queen Mary University of London

YEAIS winners 2026

Age category winners

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Early Career

Individual category winners

Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence

Energy and Climate Action

Engineering Biology

Environmental Protection and Improvement

Excellence in Education, Skills and Training

Food and Drink

Health and Wellbeing

Materials, Mining and Minerals

Waste Valorisation and Circular Economy

Water and Sanitation