Dr. Murray Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.  He is also cross-appointed with the Dept. of Chemical Engineering. He is also Vice-President and CoFounder of Aurora Hydrogen, a company that is developing hydrogen production from microwave-driven methane pyrolysis. He received a BEng from McGill University (1986) and PhD from University of California, Berkeley (1994). He was made a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers in 2016, and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2012. He is on the organizing committee of the biennial International Sooting Flame Workshop.  He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

His research is in the area of combustion with a focus on soot formation, biofuels, and combustion modeling.  Recently, he has also published in the area of carbon material synthesis and methane pyrolysis. He has supervised the thesis research of over 100 graduate students and published 132 journal publications.