Dr Christian Hornung

Christian H. Hornung is a Principle Research Scientist 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 several years of experience working in the flow chemistry and reactor technology area on the interface between chemistry and engineering. In 2019 he has been appointed director of FloWorks, CSIRO’s Centre for Industrial Flow Chemistry, which is a $ 10M technology transfer facility at CSIRO’s Clayton site. The centre provides access to CSIRO’s cutting-edge process technology and know-how for industry partners from the chemicals and related manufacturing sectors. It helps to develop new solutions on scale for the manufacture of renewables, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers and for the chemical storage of hydrogen.