Jas Pal Badyal
British academic
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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]
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- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1993)
- Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (2016)[2]
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| Born | March 1964 (age 62)[1] Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
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| Thesis | Structure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (1988) |
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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[2] 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.[2]
Awards and honours
Badyal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[2] 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.
