Jas Pal Badyal

Jas Pal Badyal
FRS
Jas Pal Badyal FRS
	Badyal in 2016
Born	March 1964 (age 60); Staffordshire, England, UK
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Awards	Royal Society of Chemistry; Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1993); Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry; Surface science; Biomimetics; Heterogeneous catalysis; Water harvesting;
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Durham University;
Thesis	Structure, chemistry and catalysis at the ruthenium-titania interface (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Professor 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 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)
^ "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".

External links

Jas Pal Badyal's Functional Surfaces Youtube channel

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[frs-1] 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)

[comphouse-2] "Jas Pal Singh BADYAL: Surface Innovations Limited, company number 04212511". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016.

[WoodwardSchofield2003-3] 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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