Dr Adam Charlton

Bangor University

With a background in materials chemistry, Adam Charlton has over 25 years experience in collaborative industrial research across different fields, including the development of new functional materials for the telecommunications / molecular electronics sectors and the synthesis of chemical intermediates for the pharmaceuticals industry. His research now focuses on the production of value added materials from biomass, including packaging, with a general interest in biorefining. In his current role at BC, he is Principle Investigator at Bangor University for the BEACON project, a £32million initiative investigating bio-refining in Wales, which is a partnership between Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea Universities. He also sits on the management board of BioPilotsUK, an innovation and scale-up programme to support the UK strategy for bioeconomy growth. He is responsible for the Biorefining – Technology Transfer Facility, which houses the BioComposites Centre’s pilot scale equipment on the Island Of Anglesey. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist.