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.