Chemical Engineering

Currently,

• Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2026 - Present
• Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Yonsei University, 2024 - Present
• Exchange Programme Coordinator for Chemical Engineering
• Cohort Lead for 2024 incoming cohort of chemical engineering students

In the past,

• KOFST Brain Pool Fellow
• Senior Research Engineer, SK Energy R&D Center, Korea
• KOSEF/Research Fellow, University College London

• BSc, MSc, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea

Member of IAS(International Adsorption Society), KIChE, AIChE and IChemE.

Currently, I am teaching

• Separation Processes for Carbon Capture 5/MSc: course organiser
• Separation Processes 5/MSc: teaching half of the lectures
• Engineering Mathematics 2A: Lead of seminar sessions
• MSc project/Study project 4/Research project 5/Industrial project 5: project supervisors
• Chemical Engineering Design Project 4: moderators of V1 and V2 reports

In the past, I had taught

• Advanced Chemical Engineering Design 5/MSc: course organiser
• Interdisciplinary Group Design Project (Engineering): Power Station with Carbon Capture and Storage for chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering students / course organiser and project leader
• Chemical Engineering Design 3: chemical process design using UniSim
• Chemical Engineering Design Project 4: organising reactor design exercise using Matlab and heat exchanger design exercise, design group supervisors / course organiser
• Chemistry and Processes 2: supervising the student visits to plant sites
• Chemical Engineering in Practice 3
• Thermodynamics 2 Laboratory
• Engineering Mathematics 2B: Lead of seminar sessions

• Carbon Capture Group

I am a Reader in Chemical Engineering within the Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids. My research interests include multiphase flows, phase changes, capillarity and wetting, and engineered surfaces.

If you are interested in becoming a PhD student or a postdoc in my group, please contact me via email.

PhD Physics, University of Barcelona

DEA Physics, University of Barcelona

Dip Chemical Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Member of the Institute of Physics

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of the EPSRC College of Reviewers

Member of the UK Consortium of Mesoscale Engineering Sciences

Undergraduate

• Process Dynamics and Control
• Chemical Engineering Research Projects

Postgraduate

• MSc Chemical Engineering Research Projects

• BSc., (Biotechnology and BioEngineering)
• MSc.R., (Biomedical Engineering)
• PhD (BioEngineering)

• Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow

• Instructor of MSc Course: Nanomaterials in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Co-supervision of MSc project students: Vibrational spectroscopy with machine learning in biomedical applications 

• Machine learning-powered vibrational spectroscopy
• Reagent-free and non-invasive early cancer detection 

Eleonora Ricci joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 2023. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece. In 2021 she was a postdoctoral researcher and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Simulation Fundamentals at the university of Bologna. She obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy (2020).

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2020, University of Bologna, Italy.
• Master's Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering, 2016, University of Bologna, Italy.
• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 2014, University of Bologna, Italy.

Course Organiser for the following subjects:

• Batchwise and Semi-batch Processing
• Materials Simulation and Design (NEW 2026/2027)

Multi-scale and multi-method modeling strategies, combining molecular, thermodynamic, and data-driven techniques to develop innovative materials for the energy transition, including polymeric and nanocomposite membranes for gas separation, electrochemical devices, and hydrogen transport and storage.