Experience

Professor of Energy Process Engineering, Paul Wurth Chair

University of Luxembourg

Responsibilities include:

  • Developing new courses with a focus on energy, sustainability and hydrogen
  • Teaching in Bachelor and Masters programmes
  • Leading research group with a focus on hydrogen-related materials and systems
  • Leading multiple collaborative projects with industry

Vice-Dean, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine

University of Luxembourg

Group Leader, Institute for Micro Process Engineering (IMVT)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Advanced materials, membranes, photochemistry and green hydrogen research. My initial period of work at KIT was supported by an Experienced Researcher Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Senior Lecturer

Imperial College London

Teaching and research in chemical engineering, especially membrane science and engineering. Taught the course “Nuclear Chemical Engineering” for several years. Co-launched the Barrer Centre.

Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering

Monash University

Teaching and research in chemical engineering. Appointed Lecturer in 2009, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011 and Associate Professor in 2012.

Education

Cambridge Senior Management Programme

Cambridge University Judge Business School

University of Queensland

PhD Chemical Engineering

The University of Queensland

Thesis on Nafion Nanocomposite Membranes for the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell. Supervised by Prof G.Q. Max Lu, Prof. Joe da Costa, Prof. Darren Martin.
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University of Queensland

Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) Hons I

The University of Queensland

Graduated with First Class Honours. Final year studied as an exchange student at Nottingham University.

Graduate Certificate in Higher Education

Monash University

Awards
Membre Agrégé, Institut Grand-Ducal, Section des Sciences
Institut Grand-Ducal, Section des Sciences ∙ March 2025
Experienced Researcher Fellowship
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ∙ January 2019
Fellowship for a period of research at KIT working on advanced materials and reactors with Prof. Dr. Roland Dittmeyer.
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry ∙ January 2016
Fellow, Institution of Chemical Engineers
IChemE ∙ January 2013
Chevening Scholar
Royal Society of Chemistry ∙ January 2004
Fully funded scholarship supporting one year abroad during my PhD, mostly in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London working with Prof. Anthony Kucernak, then a short placement with Prof. Suzana Nunes at GKSS, Germany (now known as Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon)
Languages
100%
English Native
80%
German Proficient
20%
French Basic