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Dr Laura PASCAZIO
Research Fellow
Laura received the BSc degree “cum laude” in Chemical Engineering in 2012 from University of Naples Federico II (Italy), and the MSc degree “cum laude” in Chemical Engineering in 2014 from the same university with a final project in the field of Renewable Energy. She completed her PhD program in Industrial Product and Process Engineering at University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in 2017. The focus of her doctoral studies was the soot nanoparticle formation in flames using molecular dynamics.
She worked as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge in the Computational Modelling group from November 2017 to March 2020. She worked as a Research Fellow at CARES from March 2020 - August 2024 before joining the CARES spin-off Chemical Data Intelligence.
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Past Members
Past Members
Research Interest
Dr Pascazio's main research interests are in the field of combustion, in particular with regard to the investigation of the complex mechanism that lead to nanoparticle formation during combustion processes using computational methods.
Key Publications
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Hou, Dingyu, Laura Pascazio, Jacob Martin, Yuxin Zhou, Markus Kraft, and Xiaoqing You. 2022. “On the Reactive Coagulation of Incipient Soot Nanoparticles.” Journal of Aerosol Science 159: 105866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2021.105866.
Martin, Jacob W., Laura Pascazio, Angiras Menon, Jethro Akroyd, Katharina Kaiser, Fabian Schulz, Mario Commodo, Andrea D’Anna, Leo Gross, and Markus Kraft. 2021. “π-Diradical Aromatic Soot Precursors in Flames.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (31): 12212–19. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c05030.
Pascazio, Laura, Jacob W. Martin, Kimberly Bowal, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft. 2020. “Exploring the Internal Structure of Soot Particles Using Nanoindentation: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study.” Combustion and Flame 219: 45–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.04.029.
Hou, Dingyu, Qingzhao Chu, Dongping Chen, Laura Pascazio, Markus Kraft, and Xiaoqing You. 2020. “Atomic Insights into the Sintering Process of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Clusters.” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, S1540748920304648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.368.
Pascazio, Laura, Jacob W. Martin, Angiras Menon, Dingyu Hou, Xiaoqing You, and Markus Kraft. 2020. “Aromatic Penta-Linked Hydrocarbons in Soot Nanoparticle Formation.” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, S1540748920306908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.09.029.
Pascazio, Laura, Jacob W. Martin, Maria L. Botero, Mariano Sirignano, Andrea D’Anna, and Markus Kraft. 2019. “Mechanical Properties of Soot Particles: The Impact of Crosslinked Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.” Combustion Science and Technology, September, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00102202.2019.1668380.
Martin, Jacob W., Dingyu Hou, Angiras Menon, Laura Pascazio, Jethro Akroyd, Xiaoqing You, and Markus Kraft. 2019. “Reactivity of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Soot Precursors: Implications of Localized π-Radicals on Rim-Based Pentagonal Rings.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (43): 26673–82. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07558.