Jas Pal Badyal
Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University
Jas Pal Singh Badyal (born 1964) is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University. He has been Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales in the Welsh Government since February 2023.
Education
Badyal was educated at the University of Cambridge 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.
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 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.
Awards and honours
Badyal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.
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