Dr. Andreas Kafizas

Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Grantham Institute for Climate Change
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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 Curriculum Vitae – Andreas Kafizas

Academic Posts

1st Oct 2018 – current day

Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment

Imperial College London

1st Oct 2016 – 30th Sep 2018

Junior Research Fellow,
Imperial College London

1st Oct 2015 – 30th Sep 2016

Research Associate,
University College London

1st Oct 2014 – 30th Sep 2015

Research Associate,
University College London and Imperial College London

1st Oct 2012 – 30th Sep2014

Ramsay Memorial Research Fellow,
Imperial College London

1st Oct 2011 – 30th Sep 2012

Research Associate,
University College London

Summary

Andreas Kafizas is a Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. His research is focused on developing light-activated coatings that can drive useful chemistry using sunlight (e.g. coatings for building façades that can purify polluted city air). For these coatings to be commercially viable and sustainable, they are produced using low-cost, upscalable routes using earth abundant, non-toxic materials.

Andreas is interested in developing new light-activated materials to improve the function of these coatings. His core interests are to develop light-activated materials for renewable fuels production (H2 fuel from water and carbon-based fuels from CO2), air purification (NOx removal) and water remediation (arsenic removal).Andreas has experience developing coatings for thermochromic and electrochromic windows,and has a keen interest in combinatorial materials discovery. Moreover, Andreas studies the excited states formed in the light-activated materials he develops using cutting-edge time resolved spectroscopies; linking their behaviour to activity.

To date, Andreas has published over 65 peer-reviewed papers, written 4 book chapters and amassed over2500 citations, reaching an h-index of 32. He has supervised ~10 PhD students and ~10 Masters students.

Research Interests

  • Solar Fuels, Heterogeneous Photocatalysis and Self-Cleaning Coatings
  • Chemical Vapour Deposition and Nanomaterials Synthesis
  • Combinatorial Methods for Material's Optimisation
  • Charge Carrier Dynamics - Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

Awards

  • Junior Research Fellowship Imperial College (2016)
  • Ramsay Memorial Fellowship (2012)

UCL Ramsay Medal; for best graduating doctor from the department (2011)