Jan van de Loosdrecht is a Fischer–Tropsch catalysis expert at Sasol Technology, South Africa. He obtained his Ph.D. at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 1995 and joined Sasol shortly afterwards. He is the coauthor of over 30 articles and the coinventor of over 15 patents. He was closely involved in the design, scale up, and commercialization of Sasol's cobalt-based Fischer–Tropsch catalyst for the Oryx GTL plant in Qatar. Since 2010, he is also an Industrial Fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.