Barry Halliwell

Professor Barry Halliwell is Senior Advisor, Academic Appointments and Research Excellence, Office of the Provost and Distinguished Professor at National University of Singapore. He is also the Chairman of the Biomedical Advisory Council at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR). Professor Halliwell graduated from the University of Oxford with BA (1st class) and D.Phil degrees. He holds a D.Sc degree from the University of London. He was a faculty member with the University of London, King's College from 1974 to 2000 and held a prestigious Lister Institute Research fellowship. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Visiting Research Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry with the University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine. Professor Halliwell was a Visiting Professor of Biochemistry to NUS from 1998 to 2000. He was Head of the University's Department of Biochemistry from 2000 to 2007 and was Deputy Director, Office of Life Sciences from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to September 2008, he was the founding Executive Director of the newly-formed NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering. From Mar 2006 to May 2015, he was the Deputy President (Research and Technology) at NUS. From Jun 2015 to May 2018, he was the Senior Advisor to the President at the National University of Singapore. An internationally-acclaimed biochemist, Professor Halliwell is known especially for his seminal work on the role of free radicals and antioxidants in biological systems. The Thomson Reuters lists Professor Halliwell as one of the world’s most highly-cited researchers in Biology and Biochemistry and his Hirsch Index is 172. (Based on Scopus, Jul 2024). His lead-author book Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine published by Oxford University Press, and now in its fifth edition (cited more than 34900 times), is regarded worldwide as an authoritative text in the field. He has received numerous research awards, including Singapore President’s Science and Technology Medal (2013), the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine in the USA for overall sustained excellence in the field and the Ken Bowman Research Award for outstanding achievements in the field of cardiovascular research from the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (Canada). He was identified by Clarivate Analytics in 2021 as a Citation Laureate for an exceptional citation record within the Web of Science™ — one that demonstrates research influence comparable to that of Nobel Prize recipients. NUS honoured him with the University Outstanding Service Award in 2023 for his significant contributions.