Russell Taylor

Keywords:

• Alkane conversion
• Renewable processes
• Homogeneous catalysis
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Zeolites

Expertise:

Dr Russell Taylor was awarded his PhD from Imperial College London in 2007, having worked on homogeneous methane oxidation by platinum complexes. After a one year postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. V. Gibson, Russell worked for BP Chemicals (Hull) within industrial catalysis R&D from 2008-2015. His work focussed on homogeneous catalysis, process development, heterogeneous catalyst characterisation, post-mortem analysis and catalyst deactivation. During his time at BP he received a BP Downstream Inventors Award for his work. Russell joined Durham University as an Assistant Professor in 2015 and in 2018 began a 5 year EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship, supported by Johnson Matthey. His research group focuses on the development of new catalytic materials and processes using conventional petroleum derived feedstocks as well as bio-derived feedstocks.  Since joining DU he has been awarded over £1.2 million in funding (FEC). 

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Website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=14184