Clotilde Cucinotta

Dr. Clotilde Cucinotta is a group leader and an EPSRC fellow at Imperial College London (ICL), with an expertise in computational materials science. She earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Modena in Italy, where she worked on modelling functionalisation processes of semiconductor surfaces with organic molecules. Following this, as a postdoctoral researcher at ETHZ in Professor Parrinello's group, she pioneered molecular dynamics and enhanced sampling techniques to model diffusivity and chemical reactivity in materials and molecular systems. Later, as an autonomous fellow at Trinity College Dublin in Professor Sanvito's group, she focused on different electron transport and dynamics problems, using non-equilibrium Green functions and time-dependent density functional theory methodologies. Additionally, she conducted research on characterizing the environmental stability of 2D materials.

In 2018, Dr. Cucinotta received a prestigious fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which led her to join ICL and establish her own research group. Her current research focuses on developing innovative ways to simulate electrochemical phoenomena under potential control. Her research has the potential to make significant contributions to the field of electrochemistry and has implications for energy storage and conversion technologies.