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Jas Pal Badyal

Summary

Jas Pal Singh Badyal FRS (born 1964) is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University.[3] He has been Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales in the Welsh Government since February 2023.[4]

Jas Pal Badyal

FRS
Badyal in 2016
BornMarch 1964 (age 60)[2]
Staffordshire, England, UK
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisStructure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (1988)
Doctoral advisorProfessor Richard Lambert
Website
  • community.dur.ac.uk/jps.badyal
  • www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=170

Education edit

Badyal was educated at the University of Cambridge[5] where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1985 followed by a PhD in 1988 on the surface science of ruthenium-titania heterogeneous catalysts.[6]

Career and research edit

Following his PhD, Badyal held a King's College, Cambridge research fellowship and the Cambridge University Oppenheimer Research Fellowship. He was appointed a Lecturer at Durham University in 1989 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1996[1] where he has worked since.

Badyal is internationally recognised for his pioneering research on the functionalisation of solid surfaces and deposition of functional nanolayers. Badyal has invented a wide range of novel surfaces for technological and societal applications. These have been underpinned by the investigation of fundamental mechanisms and scale-up. Examples include: antibacterial, fog harvesting, catalysis, non-fouling, optochiral switches, filtration, biochips, super-repellency, and nano-actuation.[1]

Awards and honours edit

Badyal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[1] He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Edward Harrison Memorial Prize in 1993 and Tilden Medal in 2017.[7] In 1995, he received the C R Burch Prize, awarded by the British Vacuum Council.

Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales edit

He has been Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales in the Welsh Government since February 2023.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "Professor Jas Badyal FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Jas Pal Singh BADYAL: Surface Innovations Limited, company number 04212511". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016.
  3. ^ Woodward, I.; Schofield, W. C. E.; Roucoules, V.; Badyal, J. P. S. (2003). "Super-hydrophobic Surfaces Produced by Plasma Fluorination of Polybutadiene Films". Langmuir. 19 (8): 3432–3438. doi:10.1021/la020427e.
  4. ^ "Professor Jas Pal Badyal appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Prof. JP Badyal - Durham University". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  6. ^ Badyal, Jas Pal Singh (1988). Structure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557203216.
  7. ^ "Tilden Prizes".

External links edit

  • Jas Pal Badyal's Functional Surfaces Youtube channel