Dr. Carla De Tomas

Biography

Carla de Tomas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at King’s College London and a member of the Net Zero Centre. Her research interests focus on disordered porous carbon materials with a particular emphasis on sustainability and tunability for a wide range of technological applications, including energy storage and water purification. She earned her PhD in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she developed a passion for computational research. Dr. de Tomas is dedicated to working closely with experimentalists to maximize the impact of her work, employing high-throughput atomistic simulations and machine-learning-based tools to guide the rational design of active materials. Before joining King’s College London, she held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at Imperial College, working on optimizing carbon electrodes for sodium-ion batteries, a sustainable alternative to lithium-based chemistries. Her academic trajectory is further enriched by industrial experience in the battery sector, where she worked as a Senior Computational Materials Scientist at Happy Electron Ltd. in London. Dr. de Tomas has also held positions as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo and has served as a Research Associate in the Carbon Group at Curtin University in Australia. She is an Editorial Associate for the journal Carbon and is an affiliate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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