Prof. Juliana Carneiro

Prof. Juliana Carneiro is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, where she leads the Carneiro Research Group. Her research examines how catalyst structure and interfacial chemistry govern heterogeneous catalytic and electrochemical reactions, with the goal of developing more efficient and resilient technologies for sustainable chemical production and energy conversion. Her group combines materials synthesis, advanced characterization, electrochemical measurements, and spectroscopy to study reactions involving carbon dioxide, water, methane, nitrogen, and other environmentally important molecules. Prof. Carneiro earned her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Universidade Tiradentes in Brazil and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University, where she worked with Prof. Eranda Nikolla. She subsequently completed postdoctoral research at the Georgia Institute of Technology with Prof. Christopher W. Jones before joining Columbia in 2023. She has been named a Scialog Fellow in both Negative Emissions Science and Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials. She currently serves as Chair of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York and on the early-career editorial boards of Energy & Fuels and Applied Catalysis A: General. It is our pleasure to welcome Prof. Carniero to PodCAT!