Tom Rainey

Tom Rainey has 10 years of research and industrial experience in sugar and pulp and paper manufacture. Tom completed his PhD in 2009 at QUT where he also works as a Research Fellow.

Tom has considerable experience in the manufacture of highly value–added products from sugarcane residue, bagasse, particularly pulp and paper products. His research in this area has resulted in a Federal Government Young Scientist Award and a Queensland Premier´s Office Smart State Award. Dr. Rainey has experience with a wide range of biomass fractionation and pre–treatment technologies as a precursor to value–added lignin products and ethanol as well as paper pulp.