Paola Carbone
Senior Lecturer | University of Manchester
Paola Carbone is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester. Her research interests are centred on the simulation of complex fluids including the development of models, force fields and algorithms to predict thermodynamic, dynamic and structural properties of polymers, surfactants and electrolyte solutions.
Paola obtained her PhD in Materials Science from “Universita’ Bicocca” in Milan in 2004. After a 2-years postdoc at the University of Bologna, in 2006 she was awarded a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation and joined the group of Prof. Mueller-Plathe at the University of Darmstadt. In 2008 she was awarded a RCUK fellowship and joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science in the University of Manchester where since 2014 she has been Senior Lecturer.
Paola’s research portfolio spans a broad range of applications and modelling techniques – from quantum chemistry to computational fluid dynamics. Her main research interests lay in the establishment of property-structure relationships for soft matter. Her specific expertise is in developing coarse-grained models for polymers and recently she started working with graphene-based materials with a particular interest in membrane filtration and electrowetting. She is author of >60 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of both chemical physics and macromolecular chemistry with an h-factor of 24 on google scholar.
In 2015 she was awarded the PPG/DPOLY Exchange Lectureship from the IOP and over the years she has been member of the CCP5 Executive Committee (2010-2013), the Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for E-Infrastructure for the EPSRC (2015-2018), chair of the CCP5 Summer School (2017-2019) and member of the IUPAC subcomittee on on Polymer Terminology (2016-2019). She is currently University of Manchester Faculty of Science and Engineering Leader for digitalization and E-Infrastructure, member of the management board of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) Graphene-NowNano and of the N8 CIR. Since 2019 she has been the elected chair of the CCP5.
