Paola Lettieri

Co-Investigator

Paola Lettieri is Academic Director for the UCL East Campus at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Vice Dean (Strategic Projects) in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at UCL. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2001as a Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the first female engineer to be awarded a RAEng Fellowship. Prior to this, she spent 5 years at BP Chemicals, Sunbury. Her research interests are in Particle Technology, energy and waste management. She was the recipient of a prestigious Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and The Leverhulme Trust for her work on nuclear waste management. She has authored over 180 refereed papers and 7 book chapters. She is co-author of a book published by Springer on Fluidized bed reactors: processes and operating conditions. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers; Chair of the IChemE Particle Technology Specialist Interest Group. She is a member of the International Expert Group on LCA for integrated waste management.