Dr. Philip Jessop
Technical Director of GreenCentre, CANADA
Dr. Jessop is the Canada Research Chair of Green Chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and the Technical Director of GreenCentre Canada. After his Ph.D. (British Columbia, 1991) and a postdoctoral appointment (University of Toronto), he did contract research for the Japanese government under the direction of Ryoji Noyori (Nobel Prize 2001). As a professor at the University of California-Davis (1996-2003) and since then at Queen’s, he has studied green solvents and the chemistry of CO2 and H2. Distinctions include the Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award (2004), a Canada Research Chair (2003 to present), the NSERC Polanyi Award (2008), a Killam Research Fellowship (2010) and the Queen’s University Award for Excellence in Research (2010). He chaired the 2007 CHEMRAWN/ICCDU Conference on Greenhouse Gases and the 2010 3rd International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry.
