Eric May is Managing Director of the Future Energy Exports (FEnEx) CRC and was named the 2021 
Western Australian Scientist of the Year. His research team works closely with industry, conducting 
projects in hydrogen liquefaction, methane sensing, LNG production and decarbonisation, gas 
separations, CCS and fluid property prediction. He has supervised 50 PhD students to completion. 
Eric was awarded the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year as part of the 2012 
Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science. In 2017, he co-established Gas Capture Technologies Pty Ltd, a 
spin-out company for patented technologies to capture methane from coal mines, land-fill gas and 
other sources. Launched in 2020, the FEnEx CRC brings together over 36 industry, government and 
university partners with resources of $163 million to conduct industrial-scale research that supports 
LNG and Hydrogen exports from Australia.