George Jackson | |
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Born | Madrid, Spain | 31 July 1962
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Known for | Chemical Physics |
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Doctoral advisor | John S. Rowlinson |
Other academic advisors | Keith E. Gubbins |
Website | Official website ![]() |
George Jackson (born 31 July 1962) [1] is a British Professor of Chemical Physics in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is noted for developing molecular models that describe the thermodynamic properties of complex fluids; as one of the developers of statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT); and for his work in founding the discipline of molecular systems engineering. His theoretical work has found a wide range of practical applications in industries such as pharmaceuticals, and emerging fields like sustainable energy, and carbon capture and storage. [2]
Jackson was born in Spain and grew up in Switzerland. He read a B.Sc. in Chemistry at Chelsea College (1980-1983), followed by a D.Phil. in Physical Chemistry at Exeter College, University of Oxford (1983-1986). After postdoctoral work at Cornell University with Keith E. Gubbins (1986-1989), he became a Lecturer and Reader in Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield (1989-1998), and has been Professor of Chemical Physics at Imperial College London since 2001. [2] [3]
Jackson's research centres on developing simplified but realistic mathematical models of complex fluids, which are used in industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, liquid crystals, sustainable energy, and carbon capture. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the developers of the influential statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT), an equation of state that predicts the thermodynamic properties of complex fluid mixtures. [4]
Jackson has won numerous honours and awards including a Research Excellence Award in 2009, the first Guggenheim Medal awarded by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in 2014, [5] , the Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2019, [4] the Rossini Award by the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT) in 2023, and the Lennard-Jones Lectureship by the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group (SMTG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2025. [6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1995, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020. [2] [3]