This lecture is co-sponsored by: RACI - Royal Australia Chemical Institute
Thomas Maschmeyer is Professor of Chemistry and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. After obtaining a PhD at this University in 1994, he joined Prof. Sir John M. Thomas at the Royal Institution of Great Britain as Australian Bicentennial Fellow and became Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratories there in 1997, concurrently holding a Senior Research Associate position at The University of Cambridge and 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. In late 2003 he returned to Sydney as Federation Fellow.
In 2011 he was elected Foreign Member of the Academia Europea as well as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He has an H-Index of 41 and published more than 230 items, including 16 patents.
Our responses to the current global challenges of climate change, resource scarity and overpopulation will have ramifications well beyond our life-times. Indeed, the world is standing at the threshold of energy and resources revolutions. At current rates of resource usage, a world population operating with Australian standards of living would require between 4 - 6 planets. Clearly, this is untenable and, from a chemical viewpoint, the inherent challenges can only be met by devising strategies for waste reduction, by optimising power generation and utilisation as well as by increasing the use of sustainably renewable resources.
We not only live in a carbon-constrained environment, but also consume the world’s fossil fuel reserves at an alarming rate (roughly 1 million years of deposition per calendar year, depending on fuel type). Clearly, new paradigms must be found. Catalysis can provide some of the enabling scientific and technological underpinnings for such paradigm shifts.
Real solutions will be showcased, highlighting work focused on fundamental scientific breakthroughs and how they can be connected to innovation, leading to commercial implementation.
Event Manager: Mitchell Piercey
Phone: (02) 6201 9462
This lecture is co-sponsored by: RACI - Royal Australia Chemical Institute
Thomas Maschmeyer is Professor of Chemistry and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. After obtaining a PhD at this University in 1994, he joined Prof. Sir John M. Thomas at the Royal Institution of Great Britain as Australian Bicentennial Fellow and became Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratories there in 1997, concurrently holding a Senior Research Associate position at The University of Cambridge and 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. In late 2003 he returned to Sydney as Federation Fellow.
In 2011 he was elected Foreign Member of the Academia Europea as well as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He has an H-Index of 41 and published more than 230 items, including 16 patents.
Our responses to the current global challenges of climate change, resource scarity and overpopulation will have ramifications well beyond our life-times. Indeed, the world is standing at the threshold of energy and resources revolutions. At current rates of resource usage, a world population operating with Australian standards of living would require between 4 - 6 planets. Clearly, this is untenable and, from a chemical viewpoint, the inherent challenges can only be met by devising strategies for waste reduction, by optimising power generation and utilisation as well as by increasing the use of sustainably renewable resources.
We not only live in a carbon-constrained environment, but also consume the world’s fossil fuel reserves at an alarming rate (roughly 1 million years of deposition per calendar year, depending on fuel type). Clearly, new paradigms must be found. Catalysis can provide some of the enabling scientific and technological underpinnings for such paradigm shifts.
Real solutions will be showcased, highlighting work focused on fundamental scientific breakthroughs and how they can be connected to innovation, leading to commercial implementation.
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Phone: (02) 6201 9462
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