Professor Michael Bowker

Professor Michael (Mike) Bowker has worked in both industry (ICI) and academia (Stanford, Liverpool, Reading, Cardiff). He was a founder member of the Leverhulme Centre at Liverpool University, and of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI). He is a senior member of the UK Catalysis Hub network, working both at Cardiff and at RCAH, Harwell. He has been involved in research across a spectrum of activities in heterogeneous catalysis, nanoscience and surface imaging/reactivity, ranging from selective oxidation catalysis and photocatalysis, to studies of adsorption and catalysis on well-defined surfaces, to atomic resolution imaging, to nanofabrication. Focus at present is on ‘green’ methanol synthesis from CO2 and H2 and photocatalytic hydrogen production. In all of this work the aim has been to understand structure/reactivity relationships and to determine the nature of active sites in catalysis.