Prof. Jason Hallett

Jason Hallett is Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technology within the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He did his BS degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maine (USA) and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) under the direction of Prof Charles Eckert and Prof Charles Liotta. He joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College in 2006 as a Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and later became a Research Lecturer in 2008. He joined the Department in 2014 and currently leads a group of 8 postdocs and 16 PhD students with a focus on solvent design for reduced environmental impact in chemical processes. This has included the development of cost-effective designer solvents (ionic liquids) for large-scale applications in renewable energy, most prominently the processing of lignocellulosic biomass. These solvents are lower cost than common organic solvents, and capable of targeted separations in a variety of industrial applications. He has published over 90 papers with an h-index of 37 (ca. 14,500 citations) and 6 patents. He is also the director of the Imperial Network of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology. In 2017 he embarked on the commercialization of his biorefinery research by founding Chrysalix Technologies, LTD.

Jason leads the Pre-treatment and Conversion Topic Group.