James Barber

Who is James Barber?

James Barber FRS FRSC is a Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London, Visiting Professor Politecnico di Torino, POLITO and Visiting Canon Professor to Nanyang Technological University, NTU. He was educated at Portsmouth Southern Grammar School for Boys, University College, Swansea and at the University of East Anglia. He joined Imperial College in 1968, was made Reader in 1974, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1979. He was Dean of the Royal College of Science, and from 1989 to 1999 was Head of the Biochemistry Department.

James Barber was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1980 and a member of the European Academy Academia Europaea in 1989, became foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2003, and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005.