Jas Pal Badyal

FRS
Badyal in 2016
BornMarch 1964 (age 59)[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
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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]

Education

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

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

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

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

References

  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:

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  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".

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