Dr Micaela Matta is a Lecturer in Computational Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, King's College London. She obtained her master's and PhD at the University of Bologna, and held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Bordeaux and Northwestern University. In 2019, she joined the University of Liverpool as the awardee of a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship and a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship.

Research interests

• Bioinspired, bioderived and biocompatible materials for electronics
• Design of organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors
• Morphology and charge transport in conjugated polymers 

Teaching

• Advanced Topics in Physical and Computational Chemistry
• UG Research Methods Literature Review 
• MSci Research Project & Dissertation 
• MRes Research Project in Interdisciplinary Chemistry
• MRes Expanding the Frontiers of Chemistry

Research profile

For more information on Dr Matta's research please see her Research Portal page

The Matta Group

Postgraduate Researchers

• Tristan Stephens-Jones
• Hannah Turney
• Hongsu Wang
• Klara Pribanova

The Matta research group employs a range of computational modelling techniques, from machine learning and cheminformatics to quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics simulations, to design and characterise functional materials for biomedical applications or energy/information storage.

Visit the Matta Group website to find out more.