Raffaella Ocone has a degree in Chemical Engineering (MEng) from the Università di Napoli, Federico II, a PhD and an MA in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. She holds the Chair of Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University (HWU) in the UK. Before joining HWU, she was a Reader in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Nottingham, UK, Lecturer at the University of Naples, Italy, and Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University, USA and the University Claude Bernard, France. In 2007 she was awarded the title of Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She held a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Support Fellowship to model carbon capture through chemical looping technology

Y. Makkawi, R. Ocone, “Mass transfer in fluidized bed drying of moist particulate” in “Mass Transfer”, INTECH, ISBN 978-953-307-215-9, 2011 M. Adam, V. Calemma, F. Galimberti, C. Gambaro, J. Heiszwolf, R. Ocone, “Continuum Lumping Kinetics of Complex Reactive Systems, Chemical Engineering Science, 76, 154–164, 2012 R. Ocone, “Transport Phenomena in Packed Bed Reactor Technology for Chemical Looping Combustion”, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 90, 1625-1631, 2012 M. Adam, V. Arrighi, R. Ocone, “Continuum Lumping for Step Growth Polymerisation”, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 90(12), 2287-2292, 2012 M. Adam, R. Ocone, J. Mohammad, F. Berruti, C. Briens, “Kinetics Investigations of Kraft Lignin Pyrolysis”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 52, 8645?8654, 2013 R. Ocone. “Ethics and the Accreditation”, Education for Chemical Engineers, 8, 113-118, 2013