James Durrant#
| Membership Number: | 4998 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.durrant |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8353-7345 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Sêr Cymru Solar Professor, University of Swansea
- 2005 - present Professor of Photochemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London
- 1999 - 2005 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and then Reader, Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London
- 1994 - 1999 BBSRC Adv. Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Solar energy conversion
- Solar cells
- Photochemistry
- Photocatalysis
- Transient spectroscopies
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Awarded Meldola Medal of the RSC for studies of the 'Biophysics of Photosynthesis'
- 2006 Imperial College Research Excellence Award
- 2009 Awarded Environment Prize of the RSC for studies of the ‘Photochemistry of Solar Energy Conversion’
- 2010 Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2012 - 2017 European Research Council Advanced Grant on ‘Rectifying interfaces for solar driven fuel synthesis’
- 2012 AwardedTilden Prize of the RSC for studies of ‘the design of materials for solar energy conversion’
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2018 Awarded Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
