About
Chemical Engineering Doctoral Programme Director
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Solid state magic-angle spinning NMR
- Quantum Technology for Magnetic Resonance
- High temperature and/or high pressure NMR
- In-situ/operando methods
- Solid state NMR applications for catalysis
Current research
The Carravetta research groups main field of research is magic angle spinning (MAS) solid state NMR, with special attention to:
1) quantum optimal control theory applied for developping new methods.
2) applications to materials and catalysis.
3) variable temperature NMR, operando studies of catalytic processes.
Marina is co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Quantum Technology Engineering. Further information on PhD opportunity for multidisciplinary research in the QTE area are available on https://qte.ac.uk/. The first cohort of PhD students in this new, exciting programme will start in September 2024.
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Biography
Marina Carravetta is Professor in Physical Chemistry within the Structure and Dynamics Group in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Southampton,. She is also co-director of the Centre of Doctoral Training on quantum Technology Engineering (https://qte.ac.uk, EP/Y035267/1).
She was promoted to Professor in 2024. She was the Deputy Director of Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Graduate School until 2024. She has worked part time since 2014.
She was previously a Royal Society University Research Fellow since 2007. Before that, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Southampton. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of Stockholm (Sweden) in 2003 and completed her undergraduate studies in University of Calabria (Italy) with honours.
Marina's area of speciality is NMR, where she has a long track record of contributions in the areas of methodology developments (including symmetry based R sequences, singlet state NMR, nitrogen-14 detection, spin counting methods to name a few) as well as in the applications of solid state NMR to Materials Science, with particular focus on NMR on catalytic studies, and operando NMR.
Recently, she has focused towards quantum optimal control and quantum technology in the context of NMR spectroscopy.
Marina was awarded the BRSG-NMRDG Annual Prize for Excellent Contribution to Magnetic Resonance by an Early Career Researcher in 2011 and the Ernst Award in 2004.