Dr Lucia Lombardi

Lucia is a Research Group Leader and Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Queen’s University Belfast and Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.

Throughout her career, Lucia’s work in chemistry has been closely intertwined with biology and bioengineering.

Other Professional Activities

2025 – present, Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
2025 – present, Member of the network COST Action CA23111: Nanostructured or pOre fOrming Peptides for therapY (SNOOPY)
2024 – present, Member of the RSC Protein and Peptide Science Group Committee
2023 – present, Director of the Association of Italian Scientists in the UK (AISUK)
2023 – 2024, Member of the RSC Chilterns and Middlesex Local Section Committee
2022, Fellow of the European Talent Academy Networking and Training with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi)

Funding Acquisition

2022 Imperial College London – Seeds for Success Fund
2020 Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Rapid Research Call
2020 BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account
2015 MIUR Early career researcher collaboration grant
2012 Beam-time at ILL, Grenoble
2012 Beam time at ISIS facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot
2012 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche fund, travel grant

Awards and Honours

2024 Julia Higgins Award, Imperial College London
2023 IChemE Award
2023 Gold Team Award, Imperial College London
2023 Prize for Best Multidisciplinary Talk, Imperial College London
2023 Finalist for the PFDC Creating a Positive Research Environment Award, Imperial College London
2018 Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter Poster Prize, 3rd PepMat Conference, London, UK

Membership of Scientific Societies and Communities

European Synthetic Cell Initiative
Italian Society of Chemistry – Società Chimica Italiana
American Chemical Society
Association of Italian Scientists in the UK
Royal Society of Chemistry
American Peptide Society
European Peptide Society
Italian Peptides Society

Previous Research Experience

2021-2024, Research Associate in Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College of London
2019-2021, Research Associate in Organic and Biological Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
2018-2019, Research Associate in Nanomedicine, Department of Pharmacy, University of Tours, France
2017-2018, Research Associate in Organic and Biological Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples ”Federico II”, Italy
2017, Research Associate in Microbiology, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York
2013, Summer Internship, IIT@CRIB, Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare, Naples, Italy
2012, Placement, Institute von Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

Qualifications

2013 – 2016, PhD in Biochemical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
2010-2013, Master’s Degree in Chemistry, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
2007-2010, Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy