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Queen's honours one of its own at Summer Graduation
Professor Jim Swindall, Co-Director of QUILL, received an honorary degree from Queen's during this year's Summer Graduation ceremonies
Leading chemist and Honorary Professor at Queen’s, Professor Jim Swindall CBE, has received an Honorary Degree during this year’s Summer Graduation Week.
Speaking about his honour, Professor Swindall said: “Queen’s links with industry and international research collaborations have a very real impact on the research we do here at the University. I regard the award of an Honorary Degree by Queen’s as the greatest honour the University could bestow upon me and I am delighted to accept.”
Professor Swindall is Co-Director of QUILL, the Queen’s University Ionic Liquids Laboratories research centre, whose work on ionic liquids was recently voted the Most Important British Innovation of the 21st Century. The ionic liquid technology developed by Professor Swindall and his colleagues is already being used commercially to remove mercury from natural gas by Fortune 500 company Petronas in Malaysia.
Other honorary graduates included veteran broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, Oscar winning film director Terry George and Chair of the Riddel Hall Founders' Club, Ed Vernon.
To view photographs from Graduation Week, visit https://www.facebook.com/QueensUniversityBelfast/photos_stream
