Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemical Engineering, having been successfully funded for a UKRI Innovation Scholars Secondment with Cytiva. He achieved a 1st class (Hons.) MEng degree in 2014 in Biochemical Engineering before receiving his Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in 2019, supervised by Professors Daniel Bracewell and Paul Shearing at UCL with Drs Peter Levison and John Welsh from Pall Corporation (now Cytiva).

Thomas was the Post-doctoral Research Associate for the UCL-Cytiva Centre of Excellence (CoE) from 2018 to 2021. He holds positions within the CoE management and Cytiva Academic Liaison Committees, responsible for the running and future vision of the extensive collaboration.  Thomas has been an active associate of the Electrochemical Innovation Laboratory based in Chemical Engineering, UCL since 2015. He co-supervises an engineering doctorate and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow project with Professor Daniel Bracewell that both commenced in 2021. Thomas has been successfully funded for five National X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) projects with Dr Maria Parau (UCL, completed), Hercules Argyropolous (UCL, completed), Mariachiara Conti (University of Edinburgh, completed), Gyorgy Ovari (UCL, ongoing) and Dr Michael Thomas (UCL, ongoing).

As the lead researcher for the Cytiva Centre of Excellence, Thomas is responsible for interfacing between UCL and Pall to promote international collaboration and integrate his academic research within an industry leader. His interest in tomography and material characterisation is applied to Cytiva downstream processing materials with a view of developing design suggestions for the next generation of bioseparation structures to improve the efficiency of novel medicines purification.

Thomas is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Intstitution of Chemical Engineers Chartered Member (MIChemE) and Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS).