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, Co-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)
Awards and Honours
- 2024 Julia Higgins Award, Imperial College London
- 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