Carla de Tomas

Carla de Tomas is a Senior Lecturer in Net Zero in the Department of Physics and a member of the Net Zero Centre, King's College London. She holds a PhD in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has built a multidisciplinary research career at the intersection of materials science, energy storage, and computational modelling. Her research interests focus on disordered carbon materials due to their sustainability and tunability to target a wide variety of technological applications, in particular ion batteries, gas storage and air and water purification. Her computational group is dedicated to working closely with experimentalists, using high-throughput atomistic simulations and machine-learning-based tools to guide the rational design of active materials for target applications. Prior to joining King's, she held positions in Imperial College London (Marie Sktodowska-Curie Fellow), the University of Tokyo (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow) and Curtin University (Research Associate). In addition, she has industrial expertise from her role as Senior Computational Materials Scientist at Happy Electron Ltd., a London-based battery start-up. She currently serves as an Editorial Associate for Carbon (Elsevier).