Dr Camille Petit
Imperial College London
Biography
Dr Camille Petit is a Professor in Materials Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where she currently leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2011 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and her MSc in 2007 from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France.
Her research focuses on elucidating the fundamentals of porous materials formation, structure, and chemistry to exploit them in interfacial applications, i.e. separation of molecules and solar fuel production. Her work also investigates the implications of using these materials at the large-scale. Materials of interest include metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), nitrides, porous polymers and zeolites. Dr Petit has received awards across the chemistry, materials and chemical engineering disciplines (e.g. 2020 RSC Barrer Award, received a 2019 ERC Starting Grant, 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering, 2017 AIChE’s 35 under 35 award, 2017 IOM3 Silver Medal). Dr Petit sits on the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society and the Editorial Advisory Board of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
RSC journal affiliations
Advisory Board Member, EES Solar