Rate My Professor Aaron Thornton

Thornton's research appears in high-profile journals including Nature, Nature Materials, and Energy & Environmental Science, with expertise in partial differential equations, separation science, thermodynamics, statistical physics, and proteomics. Notable publications include "A Pilot-Scale Demonstration of Mobile Direct Air Capture Technology" (2020), "Accelerating the prediction of CO2 capture at low partial pressures" (Communications Chemistry, 2023), "Machine Learning Descriptors for CO2 Capture Materials" (2023), and "Struvite Production from Dairy Processing Waste" (Sustainability, 2022). His accomplishments include the Boeing Performance and Innovation Award (2019), Department of Education Executive Endeavour Fellowship (2018), CSIRO Julius Career Award (2013-2016), Chemical Structure Association Trust Jacques-Emile Dubois Award (2013), and Young Tall Poppy Science Award (Victoria, 2012). Thornton served as President (2014-2017), Treasurer (2012-2013), and Secretary (2010-2011) of the Membrane Society of Australasia. He is on the editorial boards of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research and Membranes (MDPI), and the Industry Advisory Board of the ARC Research Hub in Energy Efficient Separations. As a visiting scholar, he collaborates with the University of California Berkeley, Chimie ParisTech, Hanyang University, University of Cambridge, and National Technical University of Athens.