Thomas D. Lowe was born in Essex, UK, in 1978. He received his first class honours degree in computer science from the University of Warwick, Coventry, in 1999. From 2000 to 2005, he developed 3D video game mechanics and game engines for Krome Studios in Brisbane, Australia. From 2005 to 2011, he developed physically driven humanoid behaviours for NaturalMotion Ltd in Oxford, UK. Since 2012, he has had the role of senior experimental scientist at CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, where he has helped develop mobile mapping (SLAM) systems that have been commercialised as the Zeb and Revo devices through GeoSLAM Ltd. and through Emesent Pty Ltd. He is the author of the book Exploring Scale Symmetry published by World Scientific, and of multiple papers through journals, including JFR and RAL. His ongoing research interests are in ray cloud analysis and robot dynamics. Mr. Lowe was the recipient of the Eureka Award for Innovative Use of Technology in 2013, and has received one national and two state I Awards, most recently in 2020. In 2014, he received the CSIRO Medal for Scientific Excellence.