Jas Pal Badyal

Royal Society of Chemistry
Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1993)
Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (2016)^[1]

Scientific careerFields

Chemistry
Surface science
Biomimetics
Heterogeneous catalysis
Water harvesting

Institutions

University of Cambridge
Durham University

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d
“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)
^ "Jas Pal Singh BADYAL: Surface Innovations Limited, company number 04212511". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016.
^ 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.
^ "Professor Jas Pal Badyal appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
^ "Prof. JP Badyal - Durham University". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
^ Badyal, Jas Pal Singh (1988). Structure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557203216.
^ "Tilden Prizes".