Thomas Maschmeyer

Professor Thomas Maschmeyer

"Thomas is currently Federation Fellow and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, received his B.Sc.(Hons I) and PhD from there in 1991 and 1995 respectively. In 1994 he moved to work with Prof. Sir John M. Thomas at the Royal Institution of Great Britain as Australian Bicentennial Fellow. In 1997 he became the Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratories there and held an Affiliate Lecturer’s position at The University of Cambridge and was Fellow at Peterhouse. Two years later he moved to be Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Organic and Catalytic Chemistry at the Delft Institute of Chemical Technology and became Vice-Chairman of that Institute in 2000. He had a leading role in spinning-out a combinatorial catalysis company, Avantium, which has around 90+ employees and a capitalisation of A$110M. He is/has been consultant for many companies, including Shell, Borax, DSM, Avantium, Australian Biodiesel Group Limited and Ignite Energy, was a Scientific Advisor to the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Guest-Editor of Topics in Catalysis, and is on the editorial boards of four journals as well as being/having been on boards of many journals, societies, companies, government organisations and international conferences."


 * Non Executive Director, Australian Biodiesel Group