Camille Petit
French chemist
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Camille Petit is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She designs and characterises functional materials for environmental sustainability.
Imperial College London
Camille Petit | |
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| Alma mater | École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier CUNY Graduate Center |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Columbia University Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials (2011) |
| Teresa Bandosz | |
| Website | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/multifunctional-nanomaterials/ |
Early life and education
Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007.[1] She earned her PhD at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz.[2][3][4] She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012,[citation needed] for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.[5]
Research and career
Petit completed postdoctoral research in Alissa Park's group at Columbia University.[4] She worked on carbon capture using nanoparticle organic hybrid materials (NOHMs). She synthesises them by ionic grafting polymer chains onto polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS).[4] She developed several characterisation techniques to analyse their suitability for carbon capture, including nuclear magnetic resonance, Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry.[4] In 2011 she was awarded the French Carbon Group award.[6] In 2013 Petit joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.[4][7] She leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory.[8] Here she develops nano-colloids, graphene-based materials, nitride and metal-organic frameworks.[8] She has delivered several public lectures.[9][10][11]
Petit is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Energy - Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization. In 2019 she was awarded a prestigious European Research Council grant to develop a new class of photocatalysts to help convert carbon dioxide into fuel using sunlight.[12]
Honours and awards
- 2007 - American Carbon Society Mrozowski Award[13]
- 2015 - Institution of Chemical Engineers Sir Frederick Warner medal[14]
- 2017 - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Silver Medal[15][16]
- 2017 - American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 under 35[17][18]
- 2019 - Philip Leverhulme Prize 2019[19]