Raffaella Ocone

Raffaella Ocone is a Professor at Heriot-Watt University, affiliated with the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society. She holds an OBE and is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her expertise spans complex systems modeling, with a focus on granular materials, multi-component systems, and carbon capture technologies. Ocone earned a Laurea (MEng) in Chemical Engineering from Università di Napoli Federico II, followed by a MA and PhD from Princeton University.

Her research includes hydrodynamics of particle-laden flows, continuum lumping of multi-component systems (applied to hydrocracking and polymerization), and carbon capture via chemical looping combustion and biomass pyrolysis. Collaborations include UNICAMP (Brazil), Petrobras, Eindhoven University, and ICFAR (Canada). She led a Leverhulme Network Grant fostering UK-Canada bioenergy research.

• Education: Laurea (Napoli), MA/PhD (Princeton)
• Key Projects: Fluidized bed modeling, lignin pyrolysis kinetics, chemical looping combustion
• Affiliations: Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Edinburgh

Recent work emphasizes sustainable technologies, including waste plastic recycling with Nextek/Sasol and biochar initiatives. Over 125 publications and 13 professional activities underscore her contributions to energy and environmental engineering.