Rate My Professor Jason Hallett

Jason Hallett is Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technology in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, holding a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. He obtained his BS from the University of Maine and PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also conducted postdoctoral research. In 2006, he joined Imperial College London as a Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, progressing through the ranks to his current professorial position. As co-Director of the UKRI Supergen Bioenergy Hub, he leads the Hallett Research Group, an interdisciplinary team of chemists and engineers focused on sustainable technologies. The group has successfully launched nine spin-out companies translating their research into commercial applications, including Lixea for fractionating waste biomass using low-cost ionic liquids, Nanomox for advanced materials from metallic waste via Oxidative Ionothermal Synthesis, Bioataraxis for bio-derived surfactants, Dye Recycle for textile dye extraction, Vanadion for vanadium redox flow batteries from waste, CO2Co for direct air capture, Ionic Recovery for critical minerals recycling, and Oorja for solar electricity in rural India.