Excellent Environmental Science Research Award is awarded to Samridhi Dwivedi, a research student at Isabella Thoburn College.

Samridhi Dwivedi, research student at Isabella Thoburn College and a pride of Indian science, was a big fish when she received the prestigious Trojan Horse Award 2025 from Swiss Chemical Society and Ärztinnen and Ärzte für Umweltschutz.

Samridhi's thesis on ultra-fine airborne particles, under Professor Alfred Lawrence, Department of Chemistry, presented a grim picture of the fatal new threat they pose now.

They are minute by-products of routine combustion processes, such as efflux from factory smokestacks or automobile engines, but they find their way deep inside us like poisonous chemicals and carcinogens.

The Trojan Horse effect is what this award has come to be known for, employed to describe this deadly process wherein toxic substances end up getting bound onto infinitely tiny particles, evading our defenses and reaching our circulatory system, much like in the mythological fantasy of the wooden horse of Greek mythology.

We realized through this Samridhi news report how these killer beggars impact the life and existence of people and how one has to take the initial step towards eliminating them.

But above all, the honor calls attention to a problem that touches millions of people, particularly in nations such as India with acute air pollution. It is coupled with a citation and a cash prize of ₹2 lakh.

Samridhi's work is a reminder of the strength of local research to go around the world at a time when clean air and climate health conversations have never been more urgent.

Her success places Isabella Thoburn College in the international community of environmental scientists and recognizes Indian young scientists who have eliminated the world's most dangerous environmental and public health hazards.  Such a feat, as observed through the Trojan Horse Award for Samridhi Dwivedi, motivates young scientists and enables us to make the world a healthier place.