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Prof. Dr. Thomas Lennon Sheppard was appointed as University Professor of Applied Solid State Chemistry, with effect from February 3, 2025. He is assigned to the Institute for Chemical Technologies, opens in new window and Analytics of Faculty of Technical Chemisty at TU Wien. 

Thomas L. Sheppard was born in Swansea, Wales, UK. He studied Chemistry at Queen’s University Belfast, where he completed his PhD in 2014 with the thesis “Development of Copper Zeolite Catalysts for Selective Alkane Oxidation, opens an external URL in a new window”. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) before leading an independent research group in X-ray Microscopy in Catalysis there in 2018. In 2023, he habilitated in Technical Chemistry at KIT with a dissertation on “Hard X-ray Imaging of Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials and Processes”. His international research activities have included a role as a Visiting Researcher at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, as well as collaborations with numerous synchrotron light sources worldwide. Additionally, he is co-founder and former Chief Scientific Officer of REACNOSTICS X-ray Science GmbH, a company specializing in high-resolution X-ray analysis for industrial applications. For his scientific achievements, Thomas Sheppard received, among others, the Researcher Plus Award from Queen’s University Belfast in 2014.

Thomas L. Sheppard's scientific home is the research area Structural Chemistry (E104-05) at the aforementioned institute.His research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, the application of X-ray imaging in chemical processes, and sustainable chemistry, particularly in CO₂ conversion and Power-to-X technologies.

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