A Lancaster University spin-out, built on a decade of carbon research.
Gavion began in a computational chemistry lab at Lancaster University, where Prof. Abbie Trewin had spent more than ten years investigating how carbon structures could be engineered — atom by atom — to do things existing carbons cannot.
The outcome of that work is a new, patent-protected material with direct relevance to one of today's most important technologies: the lithium-ion battery. Gavion was founded to bring that material from the lab into industrial deployment.
We are a small, technical team combining world-leading materials science with commercial leadership from companies that have scaled deep-tech before.
The founding team
Technical depth and commercial experience — with wider scientific and commercial talent supporting the company's growth.
Prof. Abbie Trewin
CTO
Inventor of OSPC and one of the UK's leading researchers in computational materials design. Professor of Chemistry at Lancaster University and was a Royal Society University Research Fellowship awardee, with a decade-plus record of designing novel porous carbons from first principles.
Dr. Gene Lewis
CEO
Deep-tech CEO with a track record of building and scaling science-led companies. Founder / CEO of LiNa Energy, with senior roles at Ceres Power and AFC Energy across two decades in advanced energy technologies.