James Barber FRS, Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry Professor Professor James Barber graduated in Chemistry from the University of Wales and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a registered Chartered Chemist. He joined the Academic Staff of Imperial College in 1968 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship as the Unilever European Fellow at the State University of Leiden in The Netherlands. At Imperial College, in 1974 he was made a Reader and 5 years later promoted to a full Professorship in 1989. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of Stockholm University and elected a member of the European Academy 'Academia Europaea' (1989). He has been Dean of the Royal College of Science at Imperial College and was Head of the Biochemistry Department for 10 years (1989-1999). He occupies the Chair named after the Nobel Laureate Ernst Chain (co-discoverer of Penicillin). He has published over 400 original research papers and reviews in the field of plant biochemistry, editing 15 specialised books, and was awarded the prestigious Flintoff Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2002. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2003 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005 and has recently been awarded the 2005 Italgas Prize for Energy and the Environment, 2006 Biochemical Society Novartis medal and prize and the 2007 Wheland Medal and Prize from the University of Chicago. He is frequently requested to give lectures both in the UK and overseas and in 2008 will deliver the Arnon Lecture at UC Berkely. He has recently been elected President of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. The core of his research has been to investigate photosynthesis and the functional role of the photosystems with emphasis on their structures. Much of his work has focused on Photosystem Two, a remarkable biological machine able to use light energy to split water into oxygen and reducing equivalents, a reaction upon which we are all dependent. Recent Publications - Departmental Research Pages Professor James Barber, Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry Address Level 7 Wolfson Laboratories Imperial College London SW7 2AZ Tel. +44 (0)207 59 45266 Fax +44 (0)207 59 45267 E-Mail j.barber@imperial.ac.uk Other Internal Links Director of the Centre for Photomolecular Sciences
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