Technology Consultant: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maschmeyer, FAA

Thomas Maschmeyer is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, ARC Federation /Future Fellow and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He is author or more than 20 patents and 200 publications, cited close to 5000 times. He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of eight international journals, and is President of the Catalysis Society of Australia. He received the 2007 Le Févre Prize of the Australian Academy of Sciences for outstanding basic research in chemistry by scientists under 40 and is co-founder of two High-tech company with now 100+ employees.

After completing his phd in 1994, he worked with Prof. Sir John M. Thomas at the Royal Institution of Great Britain as Australian Bicentennial Fellow and became the Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratories there in 1996, concurrently holding a research position at The University of Cambridge and a Fellowship at Peterhouse. In 1998 he was appointed to Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Organic and Catalytic Chemistry at the Delft Institute of Chemical Technology, becoming Vice-Chairman of that Institute in 2000.