Andreas Kafizas is a Lecturer in Climate Change and the Environment at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. His research is focused on developing light-activated coatings that can drive useful chemistry using sunlight (e.g. coatings for building façades that can purify polluted city air). For these coatings to be commercially viable and sustainable, they are produced using low-cost, upscalable routes using earth abundant, non-toxic materials.
Andreas is interested in developing new light-activated materials to improve the function of these coatings. His core interests are to develop light-activated materials for renewable fuels production (hydrogen fuel from water and carbon-based fuels from CO2), air remediation (NOx removal) and water remediation (arsenic removal).