Maksym Shevchenko

Theme leader in Experimental and Thermodynamic Optimisation, PyroSearch Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland

Maksym is the Theme leader in Experimental and Thermodynamic Optimisation at the PyroSearch Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland. He has a Master of Sciences in Chemistry with Honours from the Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine, and a PhD from The University of Queensland. He has been a Research Fellow at UQ since 2019 and has co-authord over 100 papers with over 80 of these presented in over 30 conferences.  

Specialising in experimental liquidus studies of binary, ternary and multicomponent systems within the PbO-ZnO-FeO-Fe2O3-Cu2O-CaO-SiO2 system: high-temperature equilibration, sample preparation, electron probe microanalysis, improvement of experimental and analytical techniques; thermodynamic modelling: critical analysis of literature data, development of new efficient techniques for accurate thermodynamic optimisation of multicomponent systems.