{"id":206,"date":"2019-02-04T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=206"},"modified":"2019-02-04T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:39:50","slug":"dr-clotilde-cucinotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2019\/02\/04\/dr-clotilde-cucinotta\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Clotilde Cucinotta, EPSRC Fellow, Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2019\/02\/181026_cucinotta_clotilde_016-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London in 2018 with an independent fellowship funded by EPSRC.\u00a0<!--more--> I moved to Imperial from the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin (IE), where I\u00a0undertook investigations of different electron transport problems at interfaces and in molecular junctions, and\u00a0 developed new models for environmental stability and chemical reactivity of 2D materials.\u00a0 Previously, I worked at\u00a0 ETHZ (CH), where I pioneered novel molecular dynamics techniques to model chemical transformation and mass diffusion in solids and liquids, and matured an interest for the energy problem, studying Hydrogen storage and energy conversion in SOFCs. 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