Camille Petit

Camille Petit is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She designs and characterises functional materials for environmental sustainability.

Early life and education Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007. She earned her PhD at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz. She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012, for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.

Research and career Petit completed postdoctoral research in Alissa Park's group at Columbia University. In 2013 Petit joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory. Here she develops nano-colloids, graphene-based materials, nitride and metal-organic frameworks.

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.

Honours and awards 2007 - American Carbon Society Mrozowski Award 2015 - Institution of Chemical Engineers Sir Frederick Warner medal 2017 - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Silver Medal 2017 - American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 under 35 2019 - Philip Leverhulme Prize 2019