James Wishart

Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Stanford University, 1985 (Advisor: Henry Taube, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983)

Distinguished Chemist in the Chemistry Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he has worked since 1987. Studying the physical chemistry and radiation chemistry of ionic liquids, and recently molten salts, for 22 years.Director of the Molten Salts in Extreme Environments Energy Frontier Research Center since 2018. Group Leader of the Electron- and Photo-Indiced Processes Group, which includes the Laser-Electron Accelerator Facility (LEAF) for picosecond pulse radiolysis that he built in the 1990s. Received the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medal from the Polish Radiation Research Society in 2019, for his distinguished achievements in the field of radiation chemistry and long-lasting and productive cooperation with Polish scientists.