Thomas Maschmeyer

Biography

 Thomas is an inventor of the Cat-HTR technology, co-founder of Licella and our key technology consultant. He is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney and serves as Founding Director of the new A$150m Australian Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology. In 2011 he was elected youngest Foreign Member of the Academia Europea as well as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) and, in 2014, of the Royal Society of NSW (Australia’s oldest scientific society). He was one of the founding Professors of Avantium (2001), a Dutch High-tech company, 160+ employees, and is founding chairman of Gelion Technologies (2015), a new high-performance battery university spin-out. He authored 275+ publications, cited 7600+ times, including 24 patents. He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of ten international journals and received many awards, including the RACI Weickhardt Medal for Economic Contributions (2012), RACI Applied Research Award (2011) and the Le Févre Prize of the Australian Academy of Sciences (2007). He held positions at the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse), and was appointed to Professor and Department Head at the Delft Institute of Chemical Technology (1998, age 31), becoming Vice-Chairman of that Institute in 2000. He returned in late 2003 to the University of Sydney to ARC Future and Federation Fellowships.

Research Interest

 petroleum