Meet Davide Dionisi. We make organic chemicals, bioplastics and hydrogen from organic waste. The TeamDavide Dionisi (lead, Professor of Chemical Engineering) and Waheed Afzal (co-lead, Reader in Chemical Engineering)from the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. Chemical Engineers with many years of research experience in biological and chemical reaction systems, separation processes, carbon capture and sustainability. The team is supported by Barbara Gorgoni (Technology Transfer Executive), also from the University of Aberdeen, who has extensive experience in IP, commercialisation and spin-outs. ProblemCurrently most of the organic chemicals, plastics and hydrogen produced today are made using fossil resources as feedstocks. This is unsustainable because of the finite nature of fossil resources and because of the fossil carbon released during manufacturing and at the end of the products' lifecycle. We make sustainable organic chemicals, plastics and hydrogen from organic waste, using renewable resources, renewable energy and only emitting biogenic CO2 in a net zero cycle. Solution We developed innovative processes to convert mixed organic waste of any types (e.g. food waste, manure, distillery wastewaters) into organic chemicals, plastics or hydrogen. Our processes make sustainable chemicals replacing the need for fossil resources, remove waste pollution from the environment and recover the mineral elements from the waste in a form suitable for spreading onto soils as fertiliser. Contact David Dionisi LinkedIn This article was published on 2025-10-27
