Shelley Brown has 20 years of experience in environmental technologies as an engineer, researcher, startup CEO, innovation platform manager in R&D-intensive corporates, and investor.
Shelley has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering, a Ph.D. in Electrochemical Engineering, and a Postdoc researcher in Bioelectrical Engineering. This academic experience spanned Australia, Sweden, Japan, and the Netherlands, covering energy and water sectors, materials spawned from chemical catalytic and biological processes, and consistently combined experimental work with physics-based modelling.
Shelley also has experience spinning innovation out of academia, winning the UQ Enterprise award in 2010 with the support of a Technology Transfer Office.