Chris Hardacre

Biography

 He obtained a PhD from Cambridge University in 1994 and was an SERC/junior research fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He moved to Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB) in 1995 as a lecturer in Physical Chemistry and in 2003, he was appointed as Professor of Physical Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to the University of Manchester. In 2004 he was awarded a USAF, Window on Science visiting research fellowship. He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Encouraging Innovation Award with Merck Chemicals Ltd in 2005 for is work in ionic liquids and the US R and D 100 award for the development of spatially resolved measurements in catalytic monoliths with Alex Goguet (QUB) and colleagues from the Oak Ridge National Lab in 2008. In 2013 he was the inaugural winner of the IChemE’s Andrew Medal for catalysis. 

Research Interest

 We have strong research interests in catalysis and ionic liquids.  Current catalytic projects range from water gas shift and emission control catalysis using thermal and plasma activation to the use of transients to determine gas and liquid phase reaction mechanisms to liquid phase hydrogenations under batch and flow conditions to low temperature fuel cells and clean energy conversion.