Camille Petit

Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007.[1] She earned her PhD at City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz.[2][3][4] She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012, for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.[5]

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]