Dr Camille Petit

Winner: 2020 Barrer Award

Imperial College London

For innovative work on porous nanostructures for applications in 乐天堂app下载 energy and sustainability sectors.

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Dr Camille Petit

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Dr Camille Petit is a Reader in 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, which she joined in September 2013. She currently leads 乐天堂app下载 Multifunctional Materials Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2011 from 乐天堂app下载 Graduate Center of 乐天堂app下载 City University of New York and her MSc in 2007 from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France. 

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Dr Petit is 乐天堂app下载 recipient of a 2019 ERC Starting Grant, 乐天堂app下载 2017 AIChE’s 35 under 35 award, 乐天堂app下载 2017 ExxonMobil European Science & Engineering Program Award, 乐天堂app下载 2017 IOM3 Silver Medal and 乐天堂app下载 2015 IChemE Sir Frederick Warner medal.

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How did you first become interested in chemistry?

At secondary school our teacher performed 乐天堂app下载 ‘Silver Tree’ experiment to illustrate redox reactions. I thought it was like art. Fascinating.

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