Christian H. Hornung is a Principle Research Scientist and Group Leader at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, which he joined in 2010. He received a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany in 2004 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK in 2008, where he worked in the groups of Prof. Malcolm R. Mackley and Prof. Steven V. Ley.
Christian has over 20 years of experience working in the flow chemistry and microreactor technology area on the interface between chemistry and engineering. He is the director of FloWorks, CSIRO’s industry facing tech-transfer facility, which provides access to lab and pilot-scale process R&D services to the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and related manufacturing industries.
Christian’s recent research interests include work on microreactor engineering, process intensification for the chemical manufacturing sector, 3D metal printing of reactors, hierarchical catalysts, distributed manufacturing, hydrogen generation from LOHCs and ammonia, CO₂ upgrading and the integration of machine learning and automated process optimisation with continuous flow.