Thomas Maschmeyer is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, Founder of the London-listed Gelion plc (GELN), an energy storage company, and co-founder of the waste upcycler Licella Holdings. After completing his PhD in 1994 he went on to hold positions at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the University of Cambridge, and the TU Delft’s Institute of Chemical Technology before returning to the University of Sydney as an ARC Federation Fellow. He is Fellow of three Academies and has received numerous prizes and awards, most recently receiving the ‘Australian Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation’ across all technologies and the Australian Academy of Science’s David Craig Medal, its highest award in chemistry. His research interests cover catalysis and sustainable processes, renewable and circular feedstocks (waste biomass/plastics), green hydrogen, ionic liquids, micro- and mesoporous nanostructured materials, reversible energy-storage devices. Mura Technology has licenced Licella’s plastic conversion technology and is engaged in a global roll-out with Dow, KBR, Mitsubishi Chemicals, LGChem, Chevron Phillips. Dow has committed to five 125 ktps plants alone.
[July 2023]