Véronique Gouverneur

Distinguished Woman in Chemistry Award (2010) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013) Tilden Prize (2016) Fellow of the Royal Society (2019) Henri Moissan Prize (2021) Véronique Gouverneur FRS (born 8 November 1964 in Geel, Belgium) is the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

"[19] In 2016, she was an International Visiting Research Scholar of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (University of British Columbia)[20] and held the Tetrahedron Chair at the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS) meeting.

[21] That year, she received the RSC Tilden Prize for her interdisciplinary work in the area of organofluorine chemistry and radiochemistry, and the impact of her discoveries in medicine.

[31] In 2022, she also received the European Chemical Society's award for Female Organic Chemist of the Year.

[11] In 2024 Gouverneur was awarded Royal Society The Davy Medal for contributions to the field of fluorine chemistry with applications in both medicine and positron emission tomography imaging.